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Truman | Primary Source

Letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt about nuclear physicist Dr. Leo Szilard, 1945.

Truman | Primary Source

Letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt about the possible construction of nuclear bombs.

Truman | Primary Source

Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Truman, informing him about the atomic bomb.

Truman | Primary Source

America and Europe organize for a common defense.

Truman | Primary Source

General Leslie Groves describes a weapon of mass destruction.

LBJ | Primary Source

LBJ announces that Sunday, April 7, 1968 will be a national day of mourning.

LBJ | Primary Source

Presidential candidate George C. Wallace denounces the Civil Rights Act.

LBJ | Primary Source

LBJ expresses solidarity with the civil rights struggle and asks Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act.

LBJ | Primary Source

The historic law that promoted equality for all Americans.

LBJ | Primary Source

Johnson lays out his policy for equal employment for all, specifying rules and penalties.

LBJ | Primary Source

LBJ cites the covenant of justice, liberty and union that formed the nation and calls upon Americans to look to the future with hope.

LBJ | Primary Source

LBJ vows to pursue Kennedy's legislative goals.