Lyndon B. Johnson

Eisenhower's successors (Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford) were all junior officers during WWII. Only "Ike", as he was called, was a supreme allied commander (amongst the highest ranking officers in the allied command). He wasn't the "supreme allied commander" for nothing! He used his military skills in the white house; and why not? It's still a military job...commander in chief.

What Eisenhower did was covertly operate in SEA (South East Asia); and if anything occurred to upset his operations...he didn't panic...he let his "Allied Supreme Commander" experience take over. Odds are very great that if he had been the US President during any of the following, as a few examples, things would've turned out more positive than they ultimately did:

1. Gulf of Tonkin incident (02 August 1964 action was actually a naval battle)

2. Tet Offensive

3. Operation Rolling Thunder

4. US covert operations Laos/Cambodia/North Vietnam

Eisenhower had replaced Harry Truman as President, and Ike escalated the US's role in SEA when compared to Truman. But remember, Truman had just finished with WWII & had to fight Korea at the very same time France was fighting Vietnam. Eisenhower, as president, didn't have to worry about WWII nor the French fight in Vietnam. He just assisted during the latter stages of France's struggle, and then escalated US troop levels, training, and covert operations. Then Kennedy took it a step further; then LBJ took a giant step forward; then Nixon changed all the rules; then Ford closed up shop (ended it all).

In a vehicle 1 car away behind the presidents

The car directly behind Kennedy's was filled with secret service agents.....diagram bellow

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.......Johnson.........agents...........Kennedy

(dashes above mean their location, names are listed belie)

He was responsible for many civil rights bills, and a lot of aid to poor people in the USA. Unfortunately he was also responsible for one of the biggest lies in the history of the USA: the August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. LBJ knew that the US Navy sailors were Probably just "shooting at flying fish". Yet he turned the incident into an excuse to widen US involvement in the Vietnam War, and expand the quagmire until the USA pulled out in 1973 and the war ended in 1975. LBJ was of the first presidents to openly lie to the people which led to the American citizens distrusting the federal government, a distrust that continues today.

Lyndon Johnson was not known for his speech giving skills. He had a thick Texas accent which proved to be hard to interpret through radio and televisions throughout the nation. His first and last speech are known as his most eloquent speeches. But otherwise, if you were to watch any of his speeches he was not jagged, but he was also not nearly as polished as Obama is today.

Not well. He was handed a difficult job after the assassination of JFK and his brother Bobby. JFK and Bobby Kennedy wanted the young men brought home because they knew the war was lost in Vietnam and they should have never have entered this war in the first place. People think that the President just ups and makes these decisions, but the head of the War Dept., has a lot of clout as well and generally presidents don't argue with them, but JFK did during the Missile Cuban Crisis and the War Dept., had it out for the Kennedy brothers after that one. It is said that to this day Lyndon B. Johnson (he wife told this story) was haunted by nightmares of the many soldiers that died while he reigned as president. It's hard to say if he could have done anything faster than he did. Let's lay history at his feet that he had a plateful and the assassination of JFK and Bobby Kennedy didn't help him to resolve matters.

President John F. Kennedy commanded a US Navy patrol torpedo boat (PT Boat) in the Pacific Ocean during WWII. The ship was rammed and split in two by a Japanese destroyer. Although two USA sailors were killed, President Kennedy saved the rest of his crew and was honored for his actions.

Lyndon Baynes Johnson was Vice President of the United States of America when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assinated in 1963. He was sworn in on the plane returning the assinated president's body to Washington. He ran for election against the Republican nominee, B. Goldwater, of Arizona, in 1964. Johnson won election. (Many pundants say that Goldwater lost the election, rather than Johnson's winning it.) The Vietnam War became a major foreign policy issue which overrode his domestic agenda; Johnson declined to run for office again in 1968. Richard Millhouse Nixon, Republician, was elected.

His program was known as the Great Society.

He agonized over it, micro managed it and despised it. President Johnson wanted to end the war and that he "trying to win it just as fast as I can in every way that I know how" and later stated that he needed "all the help I can get." In the end he relised that he couldn't win the war and that is why he refused to run for a secont term.

President Lyndon Johnson was deeply committed to triumphing over communism. As a result, he stepped up American involvement in the Vietnam War, and lobbied Congress for a declaration of war. He believed it was important to prevent communism from getting a hold in southeast Asia.

Lyndon B. Johnson served 4 full terms as a United States Representative beginning in 1937, and he was a U.S. Senator from 1948 to 1960. He also served in the United States Navy in the Pacific from 1941 to 1942.

Lyndon Johnson was a natural politician - his mother was the daughter of a Texas secretary of state and his father served in the Texas legislature. Lyndon was a hard worker and he knew how to get what he wanted.

Pierce was not nominated by his party for a second term. He was unpopular with the people because of the civil unrest in Kansas. He was taken from obscurity and made President because leaders in the party thought they could manipulate him. Also his wife hated Washington and cracked up when their son was killed right before he took office

Quite a few people seem to be convinced that LBJ was buried in an oak casket, maybe because they have seen pictures of his graveside under a group of oak trees on his farm in the Texas Hill Country. But, as a matter of fact, he was buried in velvet lined silver-gray metal casket with dark swing bar handles manufactured by the (former) Belmont Casket Company of Columbus, Ohio. The round corner design of timeless simplicity was probably the "Columbus" model of the renown company, which had the reputation of producing stylish caskets of high quality. Belmont had also manufactured the solid bronze "Masterpiece" casket of Marilyn Monroe, but the company was first of all famous for its lead coated steel caskets, which had a corrosion resistant property. Already President Woodrow Wilson had been buried in a steel casket made by the Belmont company.

Senator Barry Goldwater, a Republican Conservative, was portrayed as too right wing for the nation, and most Americans wanted civil rights for minorities and aid to the poor. President LBJ was also considered the rightful successor to the murdered President John F. Kennedy.

6 foot 3 inches tall.

On page 80 of Where the Domino Fell , "At six feet four inches he [Lyndon B. Johnson] towered over them ..." And just now on the History channel the "The Presidents 1945-1977" they claim that he was six-two. I guess six-three is a good compromise. Olson, James S., and Randy Roberts. Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-2006. Revised Fifth. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

The Great Society

i would say cilvil rights

A. wipe out poverty
B. equality for all men and women
C. a good education for every child
E. caring for old people

Yes, he was one of the greatest. He won the war and decreased the taxes lowered government and if you look at polls you'll see what i mean.

Like- look at the election results for 1980, 1984.

he was an inspirational leader with moral values

No, he failed with his " trickle down" theory, doubled our national dept, increased government and military spending, and ruined our economy.

Although this is an opinion, some people thought he was horrible.

Johnson was raised in Stonewall, Texas, in the Central Texas Hill Country, near the town of Johnson City, which was named after James Polk Johnson, a cousin of his father.

He later bought a ranch about five miles outside of Stonewall, then went to live there after his presidency ended.

Upon his death, he donated the ranch to The Public as a National Historical Park, with the stipulation that it also permanently remain a working cattle ranch.

Stonewall is located approximately 75 miles North of San Antonio, 65 miles West of Austin, and 15 miles West of Johnson City.

United States law states that no US president may be elected to more than two terms. The 22nd Amendment (1951) was adopted partly in response to Franklin D. Roosevelt's 4 consecutive terms in the middle of the 20th century. Therefore a president who has held that post for two terms is ineligible to run again.

Ronald Reagan (40th), Bill Clinton (42nd), and George W. Bush (43rd) were two-term Presidents.

His mother's maiden name is Bucchanan.

President Johnson told the nation on March 31st 1968 that he would not be running for re-election. He also announced that he will be devoting his last months of presidency to making peace in North Vietnam.