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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Things Go Wrong," what does the author say Johnson hesitated over for two years before making a recommendation to Congress?
(a) Tax decrease.
(b) Request for funds to rennovate the White House.
(c) Request to televise debates.
(d) Tax increase.

2. What did Johnson ask each member of Kennedy's cabinet after Kennedy's assassination?
(a) To give an oath of secrecy.
(b) To leave so he could put in his own staff.
(c) To leave at the beginning of the new year.
(d) To stay on out of loyalty to Kennedy.

3. What did Johnson ask of Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois in "The Transition Year"?
(a) His support on civil rights legislation.
(b) To help him with his speech to Congress.
(c) To ask other senators about their interests.
(d) To come to the White House for dinner and conversation.

4. As administrator of the Great Society, how big was the bureaucracy that Johnson presided over?
(a) Nine thousand employees.
(b) Two thousand employees.
(c) Six million employees.
(d) One million employees.

5. In June 1965, what was Johnson insisting upon about America's involvement in Vietnam?
(a) He was not a supporter of the war.
(b) The U.S. was not at war.
(c) The U.S. had never done bomb strikes in Vietnam.
(d) The U.S. was fully in the war and needed public support.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Johnson say controlled the three major networks during his administration?

2. When did Johnson like to hold press conferences during his first elected term as President?

3. How did Johnson characterize the young people who were protesting the war?

4. What did the elder statesman Averell Harriman observe about Johnson in the beginning of "Vietnam"?

5. What did Johnson discourage between his staffers in his first elected term as President?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Johnson increase ground troops in Vietnam in 1965?

2. Who was Eugene McCarthy?

3. Why did pilots find it difficult to find targets during the Vietnam war?

4. How did Johnson follow through on getting Kennedy's civil rights legislation passed?

5. What were some of the events that took place as the peace movement got underway in 1968?

6. What reasons did Johnson give Robert Kennedy for not choosing Kennedy to be on the presidential ticket with him?

7. What was the Tet offensive and how did it affect Johnson?

8. When did Johnson learn that he did not have middle America's support for his policies?

9. What was Johnson's first reaction to the Watts, Los Angeles riots in August, 1965?

10. How did Johnson respond when Robert Kennedy entered the Democratic Presidential primaries in 1967?

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