We thought the dead should be honored
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It was coined during a 1964 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the University of Michigan and came to represent his domestic agenda. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice. ... The Great Society in scope and sweep resembled the New Deal domestic agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I think it was to convince people to reject gradual emancipation and demand the complete and immediate abolition of slavery.
Gravitational force is the force that keeps astronauts in orbit around the Earth and Earth in orbit around the Sun.
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Answer: the successful launch of the first artificial satellite
Explanation: so they can get better that the Soviet Union