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President Lyndon B. Johnson was called LBJ.
President Lyndon B. Johnson created domestic programs that were referred to as the Great Society. The programs were designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.
Lyndon B. Johnson started the Medicaid program as part of his war on poverty and Great Society programs in 1965.
Lyndon Johnson continued or advanced many of Kennedy's programs.
Medicare and Medicaid began in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson.
John F. Kennedy preceded Lyndon Johnson as President of the USA.Lyndon Johnson was elected as John F. Kennedy's Vice President. So technically, Lyndon B. Johnson was president before Lyndon B. Johnson was elected as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson.
The president was Lyndon Johnson.
Lyndon Johnson was the president who declared war on poverty. Poverty won.
Johnson hoped to be remembered for his social programs, but he got bogged down in the Viet Nam War.
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