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Lyndon Baines Johnson ( August 27 , 1908January 22 , 1973 ), often referred to as LBJ , was an American ___MASK36___ who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 , assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F . Kennedy , from 1961 to 1963 . Johnson was a Democrat from Texas , who served as a United States Representative from 1937 to 1949 and as a United States Senator from 1949 to 1961 . He spent six years as Senate Majority Leader , two as Senate Minority Leader , and two as Senate Majority Whip . Cairo (; ', ') is the capital and largest city of Egypt . The city ' s metropolitan area is the largest in the Middle East and the Arab world , and 15th - largest in the world , and is associated with ancient Egypt , as the famous Giza pyramid complex and the ancient city of Memphis are located in its geographical area . Located near the Nile Delta , modern Cairo was founded in 969 CE by Jawhar al - Siqilli (" the Sicilian ") of the Fatimid dynasty , but the land composing the present - day city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo . Cairo has long been a center of the region ' s political and cultural life , and is nicknamed " the city of a thousand minarets " for its preponderance of Islamic ___MASK80___ . The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries , commonly known as OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo . The reason was the United States weapon deliveries to Israel during the Yom Kippur war , which ended in a total mess for the Egyptian ___MASK13___ , as Cairo was threatened to be ( at least ) surrounded by General Ariel Sharon ' s ___MASK13___ units . By the end of the embargo in March 1974 , the price of oil had risen from US $ 3 per barrel to nearly $ 12 globally ; US prices were significantly higher . The embargo caused an oil crisis , or " shock ", with many short - and long - term effects on global politics and the global economy . It was later called the " first oil shock ", followed by the 1979 oil crisis , termed the " second oil shock ." Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC , , or OPEP in several other languages ) is an intergovernmental organization of 13 nations , founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members ( Iran , Iraq , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia , Venezuela ), and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna . As of 2015 , the 13 countries accounted for an estimated 42 percent of global oil production and 73 percent of the world ' s " proven " oil reserves , giving OPEC a ___MASK15___ influence on global oil prices that were previously determined by American - dominated multinational oil companies . San Francisco ( SF ) ( Spanish for ___MASK2___ Francis ) officially the City and County of San Francisco , is the cultural , commercial , and financial center of Northern California . It is the birthplace of the United Nations . Located at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula , San Francisco is about in area , making it the smallest county  and the only consolidated city - county  within the state of California . With a density of about 18 , 451 people per square mile ( 7 , 124 people per km ), San Francisco is the most densely settled large city ( population greater than 200 , 000 ) in California and the second - most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City . San Francisco is the fourth - most populous city in California , after Los Angeles , San Diego , and San Jose , and the 13th - most populous city in the United States  with a census - estimated 2015 population of 864 , 816 . The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area , and are a part of the larger OMB - designated San Jose - San Francisco - Oakland combined statistical area , the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8 . 7 million . Ariel Sharon (', also known by his diminutive Arik , , born Ariel Scheinermann , ; February 26 , 1928  January 11 , 2014 ) was an Israeli ___MASK68___ and ___MASK36___ who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006 . Sharon was incapacitated by a stroke in January 2006 . The Yom Kippur War , Ramadan War , or October War ' or    '); (', or ', also known as the 1973 Arab  Israeli War , was a war fought by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25 , 1973 . The fighting mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights , territories that had been occupied by Israel since the Six - Day War of 1967 . Egyptian ___MASK87___ Anwar Sadat wanted also to reopen the Suez Canal . Neither specifically planned to destroy Israel , although the Israeli leaders could not be sure of that . The Federal ___MASK46___ Administration ( FAA ) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil ___MASK46___ . These include the construction and operation of airports , the management of air traffic , the certification of personnel and aircraft , and the protection of US assets during the launch or reentry of commercial space vehicles . Claude Stout Brinegar ( December 16 , 1926 -- March 13 , 2009 ) was the third United States ___MASK88___ of Transportation , serving from February 2 , 1973 to February 1 , 1975 . Holding a Ph . D from Stanford University in economic research , Brinegar had previously been an oil company executive . Brinegar was ___MASK88___ of Transportation during the 1973 oil crisis . The araB gene ___MASK6___ is a bacterial ___MASK6___ , activated by e L - arabinose binding . The United States ___MASK88___ of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation , a member of the President ' s Cabinet , and thirteenth in the Presidential Line of Succession . The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15 , 1966 , by President Lyndon B . Johnson ' s signing of the Department of Transportation Act . The Department ' s mission is " to develop and coordinate policies that will provide an efficient and economical national transportation system , with due regard for need , the environment , and the national defense ." The ___MASK88___ of Transportation oversees eleven agencies , including the Federal Aviation Administration , the Federal Highway Administration , and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration . In April 2008 , Mary Peters launched the official blog of the ___MASK88___ of Transportation called The Fast Lane . Israel , officially known as the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East , on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea . It has land borders with Lebanon to the north , Syria to the northeast , Jordan on the east , the Palestinian territories of the West ___MASK28___ and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . Israel ' s financial and technology center is Tel Aviv , while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized . The United States Department of Transportation ( USDOT or DOT ) is a federal Cabinet department of the U . S . government concerned with transportation . It was established by an act of Congress on October 15 , 1966 , and began operation on April 1 , 1967 . It is governed by the United States ___MASK88___ of Transportation . A ___MASK43___ university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure - track ___MASK91___ to continuously engage in ___MASK43___ , as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure . Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative ___MASK43___ and the prestige of their brand names . On the one hand , ___MASK43___ universities strive to recruit ___MASK91___ who are the most brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world , and their students enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts . On the other hand , new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at ___MASK43___ universities are overly academic and fail to provide vocational training with immediate " real world " applications ; but many employers value degrees from ___MASK43___ universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking . The Federal Highway Administration ( FHWA ) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation . The agency ' s ___MASK15___ activities are grouped into two " programs ," the Federal - aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program . Its role had previously been performed by the Office of Road Inquiry , Office of Public Roads and the Bureau of Public Roads . Stanford University , officially Leland Stanford Junior University , is a private ___MASK43___ university in Stanford , California , adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco . Its campus is one of the largest in the United States . Stanford also has land and facilities elsewhere . An embargo ( from the Spanish " embargo ", meaning hindrance , obstruction , etc . in a ___MASK68___ sense , a trading ban in trade terminology and literally " distraint " in juridic parlance ) is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country or a group of countries . Embargoes are considered strong diplomatic measures imposed in an effort , by the imposing country , to elicit a given national - interest result from the country on which it is imposed . Embargoes are similar to economic sanctions and are generally considered legal barriers to trade , not to be confused with blockades , which are often considered to be acts of war .