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May 12, 2018 · Lyndon B. Johnson: The 36th President of the United States | Biography - YouTube. Biography. 855K subscribers. Subscribed. 1.4K. 154K views 5 years ago #Biography. Discover how LBJ used...
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Dec 22, 2010 · 36.9K subscribers. Subscribed. 464. 61K views 13 years ago. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation has awarded the prestigious LBJ Liberty and Justice for All Award to Congressman John Lewis, a...
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Feb 12, 2015 · 774. 122K views 9 years ago. Here's everything you need to know about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, in just 60 seconds. ...more. Explore the full Presidents...
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Recorded July 2, 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson ( / ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
The Early Years. 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.
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The Johnson family had been in Texas for generations. Farmers and ranchers, they had helped to tame the state and had fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Lyndon's father had the gregarious gifts of a politician, and three years before Lyndon's birth, at the age of twenty-seven, he began serving as a Texas state representative. The elder Jo...
In 1937, Johnson resigned as the state director of the National Youth Administration and won election to Congress, representing his home district as an ally of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was just twenty-eight years old. He was an activist congressman, bringing electricity and other improvements to his district, but in 1941, he lost his...
That year, however, belonged to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Young, handsome, rich, and witty, the Senator from Massachusetts piled up one primary win after another. Despite Johnson's announcement of his own candidacy, Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. Facing a seasoned Republican contender in Vice P...
Johnson was only two cars behind Kennedy on the day the President was shot to death in Dallas. He was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One later that afternoon. A few days later, he spoke to a joint session of Congress. Seizing on Kennedy's inaugural plea to "let us begin anew," he asked Congress to "let us continue." Over the next year, he e...
Apr 2, 2014 · Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president of the United States in 1960 and became the 36th president in 1963, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Updated: Mar 26, 2021 Photo ...
