Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) was the 34th President of the United States of America, serving between 1965-1973. At only 38 when elected in 1964 and having recently turned 39 when inaugurated in January of 1965, he was the youngest person to ever be elected to the Presidency and the youngest person to be sworn in. Prior to the Presidency, he served as Governor of Missouri from 1961 to 1965 and as the US Representative for Missouri's 1st District in the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1961.
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| - Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) was the 34th President of the United States of America, serving between 1965-1973. At only 38 when elected in 1964 and having recently turned 39 when inaugurated in January of 1965, he was the youngest person to ever be elected to the Presidency and the youngest person to be sworn in. Prior to the Presidency, he served as Governor of Missouri from 1961 to 1965 and as the US Representative for Missouri's 1st District in the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1961.
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| - Margaret "Margie" Van Dyke
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| - Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) was the 34th President of the United States of America, serving between 1965-1973. At only 38 when elected in 1964 and having recently turned 39 when inaugurated in January of 1965, he was the youngest person to ever be elected to the Presidency and the youngest person to be sworn in. Prior to the Presidency, he served as Governor of Missouri from 1961 to 1965 and as the US Representative for Missouri's 1st District in the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1961. As President, Van Dyke developed the Van Dyke Doctrine of "containment of the interests of France" and set about a mass production of nuclear weapons, conventional arms and nearly doubled the size of the United States Navy and more than tripled the size of the Air Force, while fulfilling his campaign promise of "maintaining our security while preserving our dignity," aimed at lowering public fears of an overreaching government realized during the Hoover years that preceded him. He managed to avoid war with France during the St. Lawrence River Crisis in 1969, authorized the CIA to intervene in Peru, Cambodia and Bengal to prevent the rise of pro-French governments, continued the Hoover administration's Spectrum CIA operations in the Balkans and in 1971 authorized the deployment of American soldiers to Ceylon to help the friendly local government there defeat a rebellion. Domestically, Van Dyke signed the Voting Rights Act of 1970 which made it a felony to willfully prevent any legalized US citizen from voting through coercion, legal loopholes or "unconstitutional tests" while also standardizing voting practices nationwide for federal offices and also signed the Women At Work Act of 1971, which guaranteed women equal pay for equal work, although it reserved the right to determine what was "equal work" to the states. Van Dyke also established the Interstate Highway System after the Interstate Act of 1966 and oversaw an economy that exited the early-1960s recession and saw five straight years of record-setting growth. Following the Presidency, he served as a US Senator representing Missouri from 1973 to 1997, and refused on several occasions the position of Party Leader. Van Dyke is often regarded as one of the most influential politicians in the history of the United States.
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