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Oct 29, 2009 · Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States; he was sworn into office following the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As president, Johnson launched an ...
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 ...
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- He began his career as a teacher. Johnson was born in 1908 in Stonewall, Texas, as the oldest of five children. Though his father had served in the state legislature, he had lost money in cotton speculation, and the family often struggled to make ends meet.
- In the 1948 race for U.S. Senate, Johnson won the Texas Democratic primary by just 87 votes, out of some 988,000 votes cast. Johnson worked hard and rose quickly, winning a special election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937 when a congressman in his district died in office.
- Johnson’s career took off in the Senate, but he almost died in the process. In 1953, Johnson became Senate minority leader, and after Democrats regained control of the Senate two years later, he became majority leader.
- He was an outsider in the Kennedy White House. After losing a bitter primary fight in 1960, Johnson shocked nearly everyone by signing on as running mate to Sen.
Mar 30, 2018 · Print Page. Fifty years ago, on March 31, 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson appeared on national television and announced that he was partially halting the U.S. bombing of Vietnam, and that he had decided ...
Jan 4, 2010 · Lyndon Johnson Signs The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Having broken the filibuster, the Senate voted 73-27 in favor of the bill, and Johnson signed it into law on July 2, 1964.
Nov 9, 2009 · The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their ...
Nov 24, 2009 · On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law. At the bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in ...
