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A Democratic president from 1963 to 1969, Johnson launched the Great Society and the war on poverty, created Medicare and Medicaid and signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, but escalated the Vietnam War, which destroyed his popularity.
Political topics
Lyndon B. Johnson leans further toward nationalist than 88% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Nationalism is where Lyndon B. Johnson stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Lyndon B. Johnson sits practically at the catalog median.
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Democratic Party current born with Franklin Roosevelt that joins financial regulation, social security, public works and strong unions with civic patriotism, preserved capitalism and international leadership.
A republican current inspired by Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. It defends civic liberty through laws, popular participation, and regulated conflict among social groups, allowing exceptional measures to preserve the republic.
Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
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Green AnarchismAnarchist41%
An American statesman, Kennedy combined reformist liberalism, Cold War anti-communism, civil rights, and technological modernization, symbolizing the New Frontier agenda.
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A Baltic semi-presidential republic, Lithuania left the USSR in 1990 and belongs to the EU, the euro and NATO, with strong hostility to Russia, high military spending, support for Ukraine, an open economy and a Catholic-majority society that is secularizing.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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