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The Fighter Pilot

To avoid combat in Vietnam, Bush joined the 147th Texas Air National Guard, along with other sons of wealthy and well-connected Texans. "In his heart of hearts he did not want to go to Vietnam,” said writer Bill Minutaglio, “but he knew damn well that his father's next step had been to join the military and then become a war hero."
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President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the 11-member Kerner Commission to investigate the riots that engulfed urban communities across the country in 1967.

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