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    Lyndon B. Johnson

    President of the United States from 1963 to 1969

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  1. 2 days ago · The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973, and the United States Department of Education headquarters was named after Johnson in 2007. The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin was named in his honor, as is the Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland.

  2. 2 days ago · Sixty years ago, as President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke to college students at Ohio University and the University of Michigan in May 1964, he spoke publicly for the first time about the idea of a “Great Society” — and told students that young people could be its builders.

  3. May 29, 2024 · On January 12, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent Congress a forceful education message proposing “that we declare a national goal of Full Educational Opportunity.” Further, he asserted, “Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take.”

  4. May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. When historians assess the greatest presidents of the 20th century, names like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Ronald Reagan are often quick to come to mind. But in recent years, scholars have increasingly made the case that Lyndon B. Johnson belongs in the top tier of modern presidents, despite the controversies that ...

  5. 2 days ago · The Civil Rights Act was a highly controversial issue in the United States as soon as it was proposed by Pres. John F. Kennedy in 1963. Although Kennedy was unable to secure passage of the bill in Congress, a stronger version was eventually passed with the urging of his successor, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the bill into law on July 2, 1964, following one of the longest debates in ...

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  6. 2 days ago · e. Lyndon B. Johnson 's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1964 ...

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  8. 4 days ago · Humanities Texas. July/August 2008. In the following excerpts from a 1965 interview, President Lyndon B. Johnson reminisces about his experiences as a classroom teacher. While doing so, he also emphasizes the importance of universal education and the rewards of the teaching profession. The complete transcript of the interview, which was ...

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