Assessing Claims About Trump’s Revocation of an LBJ Executive Order
President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...
Why President Johnson Signed the Executive Order in 1965 That Trump Rescinded
The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...
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Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
Trump revoked an anti-discrimination hiring rule. Here’s what it means.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...
Trump doesn't only want to end DEI. He's also voiding a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule.
President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...
Equal Employment Opportunity: What to Know About Executive Order 11246
Learn about the history of Executive Order 11246 following President Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI programs and ...
Affirmative Action Vs. DEI: The Difference Between Them
With President Donald Trump’s changes to the federal workforce, focusing on eliminating DEI programs, here’s a look at the ...
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Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Prudent Progressive
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity ...
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President Lyndon B. Johnson's TV Station and the "Blind Trust"
President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...