Dwight D Rustin's Leadership Style

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Earl Warren was appointed by president Dwight D. Eisenhower to be chief justice of the Supreme Court in nineteen-fifty-three. At the outset of world war two, as attorney general of California, he convinced President Franklin Roosevelt to order the relocation of one hundred and ten thousand Japanese Americans. Still as governor he fought against perceived threats to national securities by joining the anti-communist crusade. Bayard Rustin was a homosexual pacifist who worked outside of regular political and social channels. When he moved to New York from Pennsylvania (1937) to work as a youth organizer, he began his career as an activist for social justice wherein he joined the young communist league because of its commitment to economic justice, …show more content…

The Kennedy administration was one that focused mostly on fighting and winning the cold wars abroad with the first one happening in Cuba. All this led to the Soviet Union being involved and aiding Cuba against further U.S incursion. Lyndon B. Johnson was the successor of John Kennedy (1964). He wasn’t into fighting the Vietnamese war though he feared that he would be considered to be soft on communism which was going to be seen as a weakness, and jeopardize the congressional support for his domestic plans. But this changed after the North Vietnamese gunboats made 2 attempts against U.S ships, and congress passed the gulf of Tonkin resolution that empowered the president to repel any armed attacks against the forces of the U.S and to prevent further aggression giving Johnson the unlimited power to make military decisions. Betty Friedan was an American feminist, journalist, writer and author of the book “The feminine Mystique” (1963). Betty and like-minded women formed an organization that was dedicated in moving society toward true equality for all women in America (1966), which they named in it the National Organization for women

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