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The United States on January 3, 1969

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President

Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson D · since Jan 20, 1965

Senate

57 D · 43 R

100 senators · 91st Congress

House

244 D · 192 R

436 representatives

Supreme Court

5 D · 4 R

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

25 amendments in force

Unemployment

3.4%

Dec 1968 · $1 then ≈ $9.49 today

Public debt

$348B

as of Jun 30, 1968 · 2 armed conflicts

1969-01-03/executiveThe administration

President Lyndon Baines Johnson D

since Jan 20, 1965

Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. D

Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman D

since Jan 20, 1961

Secretary of State Dean Rusk D

since Jan 21, 1961

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall D

since Jan 21, 1961

Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms I

since Jun 30, 1966

Secretary of Transportation Alan Stephenson Boyd D

since Jan 16, 1967

Attorney General Ramsey Clark D

since Mar 10, 1967

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Charles Zwick D

since Jan 29, 1968

Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford D

since Feb 29, 1968

Secretary of Commerce C. R. Smith D

since Mar 6, 1968

Postmaster General W. Marvin Watson D

since Apr 26, 1968

White House Chief of Staff James Robert Jones D

since Apr 26, 1968

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Wilbur J. Cohen D

since May 16, 1968

Ambassador to the United Nations James Russell Wiggins D

since Oct 7, 1968

Secretary of the Treasury Joseph W. Barr D

since Dec 21, 1968

1969-01-03/congress91st Congress

Senate · 57 D · 43 R

House · 244 D · 192 R

1969-01-03/supreme-courtThe bench

Hugo Lafayette Black D

Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Aug 18, 1937

William Orville Douglas D

Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Apr 15, 1939

Earl Warren R

Chief Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 20, 1954

John Marshall Harlan R

Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 17, 1955

William Joseph Brennan, Jr. R

Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 21, 1957

Potter Stewart R

Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since May 7, 1959

Byron Raymond White D

Associate Justice · appointed by John F. Kennedy · since Apr 12, 1962

Abe Fortas D

Associate Justice · appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson · since Aug 11, 1965

Thurgood Marshall D

Associate Justice · appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson · since Aug 30, 1967

1969-01-03/militaryArmed conflicts under way

Laotian Civil War

since Dec 31, 1963 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Vietnam War

since Dec 31, 1965 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

1969-01-03/weekWithin a week · Dec 27, 1968 – Jan 10, 1969

Agency + Council on Environmental Quality

Jan 1, 1969 · eop

Agency + Food and Nutrition Service

Jan 1, 1969 · sub_agency

Agency + Historic American Engineering Record

Jan 1, 1969 · sub_agency

Agency + Minority Business Development Agency

Jan 1, 1969 · sub_agency

Each office is shown as it stood at the end of the day. Cabinet records come from Wikidata and have gaps for some historical offices.