ch 41 People Matching

Charismatic president whose brief administration experienced domestic stalemate and foreign confrontations with communism

Cabinet officer who promoted "flexible response" but came to doubt the wisdom of the Vietnam War he had presided over

Aggressive Soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting missiles in Cuba cost him his job

Non-violent black leader whose advocacy of peaceful change came under attack from militants after 1965

Brilliant legislative operator whose domestic achievements in social welfare and civil rights fell under the shadow of his Vietnam disaster

Conservative Republican whose crushing defeat opened the way for the liberal Great Society programs

First black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, shot during a civil rights march in 1966

Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s

Early student activist and leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California (at Berkeley)

Minnesota senator whose anti-war "Children's Crusade" helped force Johnson to alter his Vietnam policies

New York senator whose anti-war campaign for the presidency was ended by an assassin's bullet in June 1968

Former vice president who staged a remarkable political comeback to win presidential election in 1968

Third party candidate whose conservative, hawkish 1968 campaign won 9 million votes and carried 5 states

Vice president whose loyalty to LBJ's Vietnam policies sent him down to defeat in the 1968 presidential election

Controversial Indiana University "sexologist" who documented Americans' changing sexual behavior