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| a public endorsement, expressed to a candidate by voters |
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| President Kennedy's proposals to improve the economy, assist the poor, and advance the space program |
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| Commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy |
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| President Lyndon Johnson's proposals for aid to public education, voting rights, conservation and beautification projects, medical care for the elderly, and elimination of poverty |
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| a preschool program for children from low income families that also provides health care, nutritional services and social services |
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| Volunteers in Service to America |
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| federal program that sends volunteers to help people in poor communities |
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| federal program that provides low cost medical insurance to most Americans age 65 and older |
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| federal program that provides low-cost health insurance to poor Americans of any age |
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| law that ended quotas for individual countries and replaced them with more flexible limits |
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| rule that police officers must inform persons accused of a crime of their legal rights |
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| distribution of seats in a legislative body |
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| a failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces in 1961 |
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| a barrier built by the East German government to separate Communist and non-Communist Berlin |
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| A 1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba |
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| A 1963 treaty in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed not to test nuclear weapons above the ground |
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| President Kennedy's proposal for cooperation among nations of the Western Hemisphere to meet the basic needs of their people |
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| a federal program established to send volunteers to help developing nations around the world |
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