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features a multimedia exhibit of key events and decisions that U.S. presidents faced in the 20th century: the stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb, Little Rock school integration, Gulf of Tonkin, trip to China, Berlin Wall, and more. (University of Texas at Austin, National Endowment for the Humanities)
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President Kennedy acted quickly and boldly when he established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961, less than two months after taking office. He said, "The Peace Corps is not designed as an instrument of diplomacy or propaganda or ideological conflict. It is designed to permit our people to exercise more fully their responsibilities in the great common cause of world development." |
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President Reagan and the Challenger |
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