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George Smathers

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George Armistead Smathers (November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate for eighteen years, from 1951 until 1969, as a member of the Democratic Party. [1]

125 relations: Actor, Alan Bible, Anti-communism, Arlington National Cemetery, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor's degree, Bal Harbour, Florida, Bill Clinton, Bill Lantaff, Bill Nelson, Bobby Baker, Brown v. Board of Education, Bruce Smathers, Celibacy, Charles Rebozo, Civil and political rights, Civil Rights Act of 1957, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Classes of United States Senators, Claude Pepper, Communism, David L. Lawrence, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Desegregation, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward Gurney, Everglades National Park, Extraversion and introversion, Favorite son, Federal Communications Commission, Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fishing, Florida, Florida Blue Key, Florida Gators, Florida Gators men's basketball, Florida's 4th congressional district, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George A. Smathers Libraries, Harrison A. Williams, Harry S. Truman, Homo sapiens, Indian Creek, Florida, Internship, John F. Kennedy, John Sparkman, ..., Key Biscayne, Key West, Larry King Live, Law degree, LeRoy Collins, List of Levin College of Law graduates, List of longest-living United States Senators, List of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members, List of United States Representatives from Florida, List of United States Senators from Florida, List of University of Florida alumni, List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members, Literacy test, Lobbying, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., McCarthyism, Medicare (United States), Miami, Miami High School, Mike Mansfield, Moderate, Nepotism, New Jersey, Newport, Rhode Island, Nixon's Florida White House, Palm Beach, Florida, Pat Cannon, Patrick V. McNamara, Pennsylvania, Phil Graham, Pittsburgh, President of the United States, Professional wrestling, Racial segregation, Richard Nixon, Robert Byrd, Roger Mudd, Russell B. Long, Secretary of State of Florida, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Small Business Administration, Smathers Beach, Southeastern United States, Southern Manifesto, Soviet Union, Spessard Holland, Supreme Court of the United States, The Ed Sullivan Show, Thomas C. Hennings Jr., Thurgood Marshall, United Church of Christ, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, United States House of Representatives, United States Marine Corps, United States presidential election, 1948, United States presidential election, 1960, United States Secret Service, United States Senate, United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, United States Senate Democratic Conference Secretary, United States Senate elections, 1950, United States Senate elections, 1956, United States Senate elections, 1962, United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Universal health care, University of Florida, University of Florida Digital Collections, Vietnam War, Voting Rights Act of 1965, What's My Line?, White House, William H. Smathers, World War II, Yacht. Expand index (75 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Alan Bible

Alan Harvey Bible (November 20, 1909 – September 12, 1988) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism.

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Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B. or B.L.) is an undergraduate degree in law (or a first professional degree in law, depending on jurisdiction) originating in England and offered in Japan and most common law jurisdictionsexcept the United States and Canadaas the degree which allows a person to become a lawyer.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Bal Harbour, Florida

Bal Harbour is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Bill Lantaff

William Courtland Lantaff (July 31, 1913 – January 28, 1970) was a Democratic politician from Florida.

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Bill Nelson

Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Florida, a seat he was first elected to in 2000.

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Bobby Baker

Robert Gene Baker (November 12, 1928 – November 12, 2017) was an American political adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson, and an organizer for the Democratic Party.

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Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

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Bruce Smathers

Bruce Armistead Smathers (born October 3, 1943) is a retired Democratic politician from Florida.

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Celibacy

Celibacy (from Latin, cælibatus") is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons.

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Charles Rebozo

Charles Gregory "Bebe" Rebozo (November 17, 1912 – May 8, 1998) was a Florida banker and businessman who became infamous for being a friend and confidant of President Richard Nixon.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil Rights Act of 1957

The Civil Rights Act of 1957,, a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Classes of United States Senators

The three classes of United States Senators are made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats each.

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Claude Pepper

Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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David L. Lawrence

David Leo Lawrence (June 18, 1889 – November 21, 1966) was an American businessman is the CEO of Teletoon distributed by PolyGram Video and Feature Films for Families rocks trees and polygraph by Home Vision Cinema and Diamond Entertainment Corporation and his video Bad Golf My Way and Red Robin color by Colorization Inc. and Hal Roach Studios and by Minwax and Esso his series This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop trees rocks and burbs by Builders Square and Sun Classic Pictures and distributed by WWE and True Value homes rocks trees by Crown Video and Red Lobster and distributed by Molson and Budweiser his company Caterpillar and John Deere and by Colorization Inc. and Macrovision his series The Frugal Gourmet and This Old House.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States Senate.

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Desegregation

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Edward Gurney

Edward John Gurney (January 12, 1914 – May 14, 1996) was an attorney and an American politician based in Florida, where he served as a Representative and a United States Senator.

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Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern 20 percent of the original Everglades in Florida.

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Extraversion and introversion

The trait of extraversion–introversion is a central dimension of human personality theories.

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Favorite son

A favorite son (or a favorite daughter) is a political term.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida Blue Key

Florida Blue Key is a student honor and service society at the University of Florida.

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Florida Gators

The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida.

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Florida Gators men's basketball

The Florida Gators men's basketball team represents the University of Florida in the sport of basketball.

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Florida's 4th congressional district

Florida's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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George A. Smathers Libraries

The George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida constitute one of the largest university library systems in the United States.

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Harrison A. Williams

Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams Jr. (December 10, 1919November 17, 2001) was a Democrat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives (1953–1957) and the United States Senate (1959–1982).

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens is the systematic name used in taxonomy (also known as binomial nomenclature) for the only extant human species.

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Indian Creek, Florida

Indian Creek is a wealthy village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Internship

An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organisation for a limited period of time.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Sparkman

John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama.

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Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne (Cayo Vizcaíno) is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Larry King Live

Larry King Live is an American talk show that was hosted by Larry King on CNN from 1985 to 2010.

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Law degree

A law degree is an academic degree conferred for studies in law.

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LeRoy Collins

Thomas LeRoy Collins (March 10, 1909 – March 12, 1991) was an American attorney and politician, the 33rd Governor of Florida, serving a special term in 1955, and being elected to a four-year term in 1956, serving through 1961.

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List of Levin College of Law graduates

This list of Levin College of Law graduates includes notable recipients of one or more academic law degrees (LL.B., J.D., LL.M.) from the Levin College of Law, the law school of the University of Florida, located in Gainesville, Florida.

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List of longest-living United States Senators

This page contains a list of the longest-living United States Senators among those currently living (incumbent or former) and a list of the individuals who, at the time of their deaths, were the longest-lived United States Senators among those current or former senators then living.

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List of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members

This is a list of notable members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

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List of United States Representatives from Florida

The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Florida.

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List of United States Senators from Florida

Florida was admitted to the Union on March 3, 1845, and elects its U.S. Senators to Class 1 and Class 3.

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List of University of Florida alumni

This list of University of Florida alumni includes current students, former students, and graduates of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

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List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members

This List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members includes over 300 former Florida Gators athletes who represented the University of Florida in one or more intercollegiate sports and were recognized as "Gator Greats" for their athletic excellence during their college sports careers.

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Literacy test

A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write.

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Lobbying

Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Medicare (United States)

In the United States, Medicare is a national health insurance program, now administered by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services of the U.S. federal government but begun in 1966 under the Social Security Administration.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miami High School

Miami Senior High School is a public high school located at 2450 SW 1st Street in Miami, Florida, United States, and operated by Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

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Mike Mansfield

Michael Joseph Mansfield (March 16, 1903 – October 5, 2001) was an American politician and diplomat.

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Moderate

Moderate is a general term for people who fall in the center category of the left–right political spectrum.

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Nepotism

Nepotism is based on favour granted to relatives in various fields, including business, politics, entertainment, sports, religion and other activities.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.

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Nixon's Florida White House

The Florida White House (or Winter White House) was an informal name for a compound in Key Biscayne, Florida, used by U.S. President Richard Nixon.

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Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Pat Cannon

Patrick Arthur Cannon (May 22, 1904 – January 23, 1966) was a United States Representative from Florida.

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Patrick V. McNamara

Patrick Vincent McNamara (October 4, 1894 – April 30, 1966) was an American politician.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Phil Graham

Philip Leslie Graham (July 18, 1915 – August 3, 1963) was an American newspaperman best known as publisher and later co-owner of The Washington Post and its parent company, The Washington Post Company.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010.

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Roger Mudd

Roger Harrison Mudd (born February 9, 1928) is a retired American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News.

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Russell B. Long

Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987, and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee for fifteen years from 1966 to 1981.

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Secretary of State of Florida

The Secretary of State of Florida is a constitutional officer of the state government of the U.S. state of Florida, established by the original 1838 state constitution.

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ), commonly known as SAE, is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity.

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Small Business Administration

The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a United States government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Smathers Beach

Smathers Beach is the largest public beach in Key West, Florida, United States.

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Southeastern United States

The Southeastern United States (Sureste de Estados Unidos, Sud-Est des États-Unis) is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.

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Southern Manifesto

The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Spessard Holland

Spessard Lindsey Holland (July 10, 1892 – November 6, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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Thomas C. Hennings Jr.

Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. (June 25, 1903September 13, 1960) was an American political figure from Missouri, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (from 1935 until 1940), and the United States Senate (from 1951 until 1960).

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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.

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United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical confessional roots in the Reformed, Lutheran, Congregational and evangelical Protestant traditions, and "with over 5,000 churches and nearly one million members".

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United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (in case citations, S.D. Fla. or S.D. Fl.) is the federal United States district court with territorial jurisdiction over the southern part of the state of Florida.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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United States presidential election, 1948

The United States presidential election of 1948 was the 41st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948.

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United States presidential election, 1960

The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.

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United States Secret Service

The United States Secret Service (also USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, charged with conducting criminal investigations and protecting the nation's leaders.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship is a standing committee of the United States Senate.

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United States Senate Democratic Conference Secretary

The United States Senate Democratic Conference Secretary, also called the Caucus Secretary, is a ranking leadership position within the Democratic Party in the United States Senate.

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United States Senate elections, 1950

The United States Senate elections of 1950 occurred in the middle of Harry S. Truman's second term as President.

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United States Senate elections, 1956

The United States Senate elections of 1956 were elections for the United States Senate that coincided with the re-election of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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United States Senate elections, 1962

The United States Senate elections, 1962 was an election for the United States Senate which was held in the middle of President John F. Kennedy's term.

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United States Senate Special Committee on Aging

The United States Senate Special Committee on Aging was initially established in 1961 as a temporary committee; it became a permanent Senate committee in 1977.

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Universal health care

Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, universal care, or socialized health care) is a health care system that provides health care and financial protection to all citizens of a particular country.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Florida Digital Collections

The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) are supported by the University of Florida Digital Library Center in the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

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What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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William H. Smathers

William Howell Smathers (January 7, 1891September 24, 1955) was a Democratic United States Senator from New Jersey, serving from 1937 to 1943.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yacht

A yacht is a watercraft used for pleasure or sports.

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George A. Smathers, George Armistead Smathers.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smathers

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