{"id":1955,"date":"1963-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1963-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=1955"},"modified":"1963-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1963-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"29111221963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/11\/22\/29111221963\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/22\/1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lyndon B. Johnson (November 22, 1963\u2014January 20, 1969). Democratic. President Lyndon Johnson was one in four presidents to have served in all four federal offices of the U.S. government (President, Vice President, Representative, and Senator). He was well known for his domestic policies, including civil rights, Medicaid, Medicare, Public Broadcasting, the &#8216;War on Poverty,&#8217; educational aids, and environmental protection. However, his foreign strategy with the Vietnam War dragged his popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cU.S. Presidents,\u201d TotallyHistory.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lyndon B. Johnson (November 22, 1963\u2014January 20, 1969). Democratic. President Lyndon Johnson was one in four presidents to have served in all four federal offices of the U.S. government (President, Vice President, Representative, and Senator). He was well known for his domestic policies, including civil rights, Medicaid, Medicare, Public Broadcasting, the &#8216;War on Poverty,&#8217; educational [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/11\/22\/29111221963\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 11\/22\/1963<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2219,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/12\/21\/29912211963\/","url_meta":{"origin":1955,"position":0},"title":"12\/21\/1963","author":"AmarkData","date":"December 21, 1963","format":false,"excerpt":"\"21.12.63. The Johnson Administration exerted \u2018strong diplomatic pressure\u2019 on Spain so that it would comply with the embargo, although Spain continued to have substantial commercial links with Cuba. Pressures included the threat to cut the economic assistance of States, which included loans from the Export-Import Bank of U.S. $100 millions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1958,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/01\/20\/1731201961\/","url_meta":{"origin":1955,"position":1},"title":"1\/20\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 20, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"John F. Kennedy (January 20, 1961\u2014November 22, 1963). Democratic. Also known as JFK. At age 43 Kennedy was the second youngest president ever when elected, after Theodore Roosevelt. JFK was the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize and the only Catholic president. Events that happened during Kennedy\u2019s presidency\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2218,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/12\/18\/29812181963\/","url_meta":{"origin":1955,"position":2},"title":"12\/18\/1963","author":"AmarkData","date":"December 18, 1963","format":false,"excerpt":"\"NSC [National Security Council], \u2018Travel Controls-Cuba,\u2019 December 18, 1963. This memo, written by the NSC's Latin American specialist Gordon Chase to national security advisor McGeorge Bundy, reveals that the Attorney General's proposal has been overruled at the State Department. 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As president in charge of the Reconstruction, Johnson drafted conciliatory policies towards the South in a hurry to reincorporate former states of the Confederacy.\u201d \u201cU.S. Presidents,\u201d TotallyHistory.com","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2224,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1964\/05\/21\/3045211964\/","url_meta":{"origin":1955,"position":5},"title":"5\/21\/1964","author":"AmarkData","date":"May 21, 1964","format":false,"excerpt":"\"A principal argument, as national security advisor\u2026 McGeorge Bundy informed President [Lyndon B.] Johnson in a subsequent memorandum [on May 21, 1964] on \u2018Student Travel to Cuba\u2019 was that \u2018a relaxation of U.S. restrictions would make it very difficult for us to urge Latin American governments to prevent their nationals\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}