Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson was the Vice President before JFK was assassinated and Johnson was inaugurated as the replacement president.

One of the major accomplishments of the Great Society was passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Act put the power of the federal government behind the rights of blacks and other minorities to vote. The creation of the Office of Economic Opportunity funded a Jobs Corps that retrained unemployed people for new kinds of jobs available in technology. Head Start provided education to the families that were too poor to send children to day care or preschool. VISTA was a domestic peace corps. Volunteers in Service to America. Low cost student loans became available. Funding of schools, colleges, and universities allowed more middle and lower income groups to go to continue their education.

After taking over as president from John F. Kennedy and serving as president for a year, Lyndon Johnson was elected as the US President in the next election. Johnson declined to run for a full second term.

L B Johnson did not stand for re election in 1968.

Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in on Air Force One in Dallas at Love Field Airport on November 22, 1963. He was sworn in by Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a family friend, making him the first President sworn in by a woman. He is also the only President to have been sworn in on Texas soil. Johnson did not swear on a Bible, as there were none on Air Force One; a Roman Catholic missal was found in Kennedy's desk and was used for the swearing-in ceremony.

to end poverty and racial injustice in america

Only 11% of Americans were below the poverty line well into Nixon's administration because of the Great Society. Another benefit of the program was the creation of Medicaid and Medicare which are very important programs in America today. It also achieved the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which did many important things on its own. However it did upset many of the people living in the southern state. Among these is outlawing voter registration segregation, segregation in schools, and also in places of employment. Because of the Civil Rights Act, equality was given in basically anything dealing with outlawing private discrimination in public places.

LBJ graduated in August, 1930 from Southwest Texas State Teachers' College.

Literally, it means that a blank check has been given that contains a signature of one party. When a check like this is given to the other party, it states that any amount can be filled in to later be cashed out. It is often used in figurative terms, in which you are saying: ''I am willing to help you, no matter what''.

Johnson had the power to "take all necessary measures" to prevent "aggression".

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Will the USPS issue commemorative stamp for President Lyndon B. Johnson centennial this year? Aug. 27, 2008, would be LBJ's 100th birthday.

Johnson ramped up US troop presence in Vietnam significantly. At the same time the French bugged out of Vietnam despite their asking for the US help. The NASA Mercury space program continued and ended. A man that Democrats would later put in the Presidential Line of Succession, Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd(D), conducted the longest Senate filibuster ever against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The act passed anyhow. Johnson pushed through the Great Society welfare expansion and launched his war on poverty with no exit strategy in Inez, Kentucky. 45 years and trillion$ of dollars spent later the percentage of people in the US living below the poverty level is roughly the same. Johnson(D) chose not to run for a 2nd term. He was replaced by Richard Nixon(R).

He was trying to obtain support for the Vietnam War.

She was born Claudia Alta Taylor on December 22, 1912 in Harrison County, Texas. Her nurse remarked that she was as "pretty as a ladybird" (a colloquial name for a ladybug). The nickname stuck for the rest of her life.

Lyndon Johnson married to Lady Bird Taylor in November 17, 1934

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He was a tall Texan, and he could never properly pronounce Vietnamese names correctly, such as, (which he actually stated, concerning his worry over losing Khe Sanh to GEN Giap, the very same GEN Giap who defeated the French Army at Dien Bien Phu in 1954) "...I'll not have another Den Ben Foo!" (Said with a Texa's drawl!). Contrary to what people think of him today (since he escalated the war in 1965) he actually hated the Vietnam War, it made him sick...and distracted him from his objective of creating a "GREAT SOCIETY" in America. That's what he wanted to be remembered for. He definitely did NOT want to be remembered for the Vietnam War, which is why he quit his office at the end of his term...he wanted no more part of it! In a sad twist of fate; no one knows about his "Great Society", but they do remember Johnson's Vietnam War.

Johnson was personally responsible for the existence of the center. The facility came into being through legislation originated by Johnson in 1958.

In carrying forth with Kennedy's goal to land on the moon, he created a lot of benefit for NASA, both at Cape Canaveral and at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.

It was originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center, but was renamed in 1973, a few months after Johnson died.

In the election of 1964 Barry Goldwater was the Republican who ran against Lyndon Johnson.

The meanings of the terms differ between sources and alter according to the politics of the era. However, Lyndon Johnson could probably be safely called a "radical" in most places, a "liberal" in North America and a "socialist" in Europe without any of these titles being wrong per se. The term "liberal moderate" has a specific meaning in the United States and it would not be wrong to describe him as such (although it would be overly simplistic). Some people thought he was a conservative early in his career, but the evidence rarely bore this out.

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His biggest failure in the mind of the public was probably his continuation of the war in Vietnam. He continued to send and keep troops there and was hated for his escalation of the war. He lost public support and was heckled by the phrase: "Hey, hey LBJ, hopw many kids did you kill today?"

He completed the remaining 14 months of John F. Kennedy's term (November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1965), and then served a four-year term of his own, from January 20, 1965 to January 20, 1969.