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From History.com, November 3rd 1930. At 12.05am on This Day in 1930. But Detroit wins a tunnel between the United States and Canada is officially open to car traffic. The wins are Mayor Frederick Jackson, who bragged at the tunnel's elaborate dedication ceremony two days before.
The structure of the only international subquia's tunnel in the world made it possible to pass from one great country to the other in the short space of three minutes. For his heart, Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy cheered that the project signified a new appreciation of our desire to preserve peace, friendship, and the Brotherhood of Man, the first passenger car through the tunnel was a 1929 Studebaker. Would you like to hear more about this event? Another event from November 3rd.
Or an event from a different date. Another. November 3rd 1964. In one of the most crushing victories in the history of US presidential elections, incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, senior with over 60% of the popular vote.
Johnson turned back the conservative senator from Arizona to secure his first full-term in office after succeeding to the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, during the 1964 campaign. Goldwater was decidedly critical of Johnson's liberal domestic agenda, railing against welfare programs and defending his own decision to vote against the civil rights act passed by Congress earlier that year. However, some of the most dramatic differences between the two candidates appeared over the issue of Cold War foreign policy.
The Republican angrily charged Johnson and the Democratic party with having given into communist aggression, pointedly referring to the existence of Castro's Communist Cuba 90 miles off America's shore. On more than one occasion, Goldwater seemed to suggest that he would not be above using nuclear weapons on both Cuba and North Vietnam to achieve US objectives. Johnson's advisers, of course, did all they could portray Goldwater as a saber rattling warmonger, who would bring a well-to-nuclear annihilation if elected. The president counted his opponents' challenges by portraying himself as a model of statesman like restraint.
Concerning Vietnam, he modified domestic concerns about a possible war by claiming that he would not send American boys nine or ten thousand miles from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. Johnson's statements satisfied many Americans, but any commitment he may have had about avoiding direct US involvement in the Vietnam conflict was already eroding by the time of the 1964 election. Four months after his victory, Johnson committed US combat troops to Vietnam. Would you like to hear more about this event, another event from November 3rd, or an event from a different date?
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