Lyndon

The last time the president federalized the National Guard over the objections of a state governor was in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect Martin Luther King Jr. and the Selma to Montgomery March in defiance of then-Gov.

It reminded me of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s manufactured Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 that Congress passed, enabling him to vastly escalate U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

It’s been 60 years since a president invoked the Insurrection Act without a state’s request, when President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed Alabama's National Guard in 1965 to protect civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery.

The last time a president sent the National Guard into a state without a request from the governor was six decades ago, when President Lyndon B. Johnson mobilized troops in Alabama to defend civil rights demonstrators and enforce a federal court order in 1965.

So the last time was when President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the Guard in order to protect Civil Rights marchers who were marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.