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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What job did Robert McNamara take in 1967?
2. Where was President Kennedy assassinated?
3. What kind of popular majority did Johnson win in 1964?
4. What did Johnson ask of Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois in "The Transition Year"?
5. What did Johnson ask each member of Kennedy's cabinet after Kennedy's assassination?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Johnson calm the American public after Kennedy's assassination?
2. What was Johnson's approach to dealing with the media as President?
3. In what ways did Johnson assert his control over his staff and cabinet?
4. How did inflation and the war affect Johnson's approval ratings between 1966 and 1968?
5. How did Johnson respond when Robert Kennedy entered the Democratic Presidential primaries in 1967?
6. Why did Johnson keep the public and Congress uninformed about his actions in Vietnam in 1965?
7. What reasons did Johnson give Robert Kennedy for not choosing Kennedy to be on the presidential ticket with him?
8. Why did pilots find it difficult to find targets during the Vietnam war?
9. Why did Johnson stop meeting with his National Security Council when he was under siege?
10. How did Johnson feel about Richard Nixon cutting his Great Society programs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Johnson's experience at San Marcos College set the stage for his success in life? How did he work harder and longer than others to achieve his goals? In what way did he influence the student population in a positive way?
Essay Topic 2
Why did Johnson come to be termed a liar in his handling of the Vietnam war? Why was he secretive with Congress and the American public? How did that secrecy become his undoing in the end?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Johnson's first campaign for President in 1960. What erroneous assumption did he make that resulted in his failed bid? Why was John F. Kennedy's campaign more effective?
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