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Lyndon Baines Johnson was born just after the turn of the 20th century in the rugged and isolated Hill Country of Texas. It was a character-building, hardscrabble land where he learned the lessons of loyalty, the arts of persuasion and power, and the insecurity of lean times. On August 27, 1908, the future president was born the first child of ...
Nov 17, 2017 · Print Page. Getty Images. The Great Society was an ambitious series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty ...
The man who had risen from the poor Hill Country of Texas to become the acknowledged leader of the United States Senate and occupant of the Oval Office would return to Texas demoralized and discredited. He died four years later, a few hundred feet from the place of his birth. As a man, Lyndon Johnson was obsessed with his place in history ...
Lyndon B. Johnson. A "Great Society" for the American people was the vision of Lyndon Johnson. As president, he obtained passage of one of the most significant legislative programs in the nation's history, but found his presidency overwhelmed by opposition to his war in Vietnam. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far ...
Remarks of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Airport Rally, Amarillo, TX. November 22, 1963. Lyndon B. Johnson Event Timeline. November 22, 1963. Remarks Upon Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base. November 23, 1963. White House Announcement Concerning the Official Cortege for President Kennedy from the White House to the Capitol. November 23, 1963.
When Texas congressman Lyndon Johnson won election to the Senate in 1948, he took the hotly contested race by a margin of just 87 votes, earning the nickname “Landslide Lyndon.”. Once in the Senate, he quickly allied himself with Senator Richard B. Russell, the Georgia Democrat who chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee and the ...
Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often called by his initials LBJ, was an American politician. He was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Before becoming president, he was the 37th vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963.
