Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in 1937. Proving himself an energetic politician, he moved to the Senate in 1949, where he was appointed majority leader in 1955. In 1960, he served as John F. Kennedy's running mate, and his presence helped Kennedy carry a close election against Republican Richard Nixon. After Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States. One year later, he won a landslide victory over Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.An admirer of the liberal programs of Franklin Roosevelt, President Johnson introduced legislation to broaden and expand the New Deal in the hope of creating what he called the Great Society--an America based on liberal ideals of economic equality. He also pushed through major civil rights bills and pursued a strong foreign policy in Vietnam. However, his decision to deploy tens of thousands of troops to bolster South...
A native of the hill country of Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in 1937. Proving himself an energetic politician, he moved to the Senate in...
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, to sign the Medicare bill into law. Medicare, created as an amendment to President Franklin...
On July 2, 1964, in a nationally televised address, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke of the significance of the civil rights act that he was about to sign into law. The Civil Rights Act of 1964,...
Flushed with a landslide victory over the Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election, Lyndon Johnson began his first term as an elected U.S. president on a wave of optimism. During...
On July 5, 1960, Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. With the Democratic National Convention less than a week away, Johnson...
At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in an open-car motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. He was pronounced dead 30 minutes later....
On April 28, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson deployed the first of 23,000 U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic to intervene in a civil war being waged in the Caribbean nation. Johnson initially...
In the months before his assassination, African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. became increasingly concerned with the problem of economic inequality in America. He planned an...
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson notifies Alabama's Governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to call up the Alabama National Guard in order to supervise a planned...
On April 27, 1968, Hubert Humphrey, vice president to President Lyndon Johnson, declared his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. One month earlier, President Johnson, citing national...
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