Great Canadian Flag Debate retention of the Canadian Red Ensign. Diefenbaker and his lieutenants mounted a filibuster. The seemingly endless debate raged on in Parliament and the press with no side giving quarter. Pearson forced members of Parliament to stay over the summer, but that did not help. On September 10, 1964, the Prime Minister yielded to the suggestion that the matter be referred to a special flag committee. The key member of the 15-person panel, Liberal Member of Parliament John Matheson said that they "were asked to produce a flag for Canada and in six weeks!" On September 10, 1964, a committee of
1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota president. Nationally, no candidate since James Monroe’s re-election in 1820 had won as great a percentage of the popular vote as did Johnson in 1964, nor has any candidate since 1964. , this is the last election in which Brown County, Redwood County, and Rock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota The 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1964, in Minnesota as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had assumed the presidency less than