Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" Started in the 1980s

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Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" started in the 1980s.

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William McKinley

25th President of the United States, led during the Spanish-American War, assassinated in 1901.

William Jennings Bryan

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Fourteenth Amendment

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