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Lyndon B. Johnson

By Hannah Patton

Lady Bird Johnson

(Spouse President Johnson)

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Negative Aspects Of His Presidency

Video of President Johnson speaking of the Vietnam War

She created a First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital and then expanded her program to include the entire nation. She was also highly involved in the President's war on poverty, focusing in particular on the Head Start project for preschool children.

Past Life

Many of his initiatives for the arts, for the environment, for poverty, for racial justice, and for workplace safety angered many economic and social conservatives and became the targets of alienated white voters and tax revolters. The reaction to his Great Society and to broader trends helped spawn a dramatic political polarization in the United States that some historians have labeled a conservative counterrevolution.

Who Is Lyndon B. Johnson?

1908. Born August 27, at Stonewall, Texas. The first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson was born in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River. He was named Lyndon Baines Johnson, and his grandfather declared he would grow up to be a United States Senator.

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, He was born in Texas on August 27, 1908. He was elected vice president of the United States in 1960, and became the 36th president in 1963, after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

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Images Of Lyndon B. Johnson

My Poppy, Forrest G. Guthrie is a Retired Special Agent in Charge. He served security detail for 7 U.S. Pesidents, among them LBJ. In the beginning of his term as President, Special Agent Guthrie went with LBJ on a Presidential hunt in Texas. You can read about it in his book, Special Agent in Charge.

Lyndon's Spouse

How did Lyndon help with the civil rights era?

Major Contributions To His Presidency

Lyndon Baines Johnson has been credited with being one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement. Johnson does have some distracters who believe that he was merely an unprincipled politician who used the civil rights issue when he realized the worth of the “Black Vote”. However Johnson himself claimed to be an idealist who dreamed of making America a “Great Society”. It was Johnson who put the presidential signature to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Claudia Alta Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson was First Lady of the United States, as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. Notably well-educated for a woman of her era, she proved a capable manager and a shrewd investor.

President Johnson's administration also extended the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, including aid to education, Headstart, Medicare, and Medicaid—programs that are still significant today

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Lyndon's Death

Vietnam War

An inherited War

Lyndon had also made quotes. Some of his quotes are...

Did Lyndon B. Johnson have children?

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.

January 22, 1973, Lyndon Baines Johnson died from a heart attack in Johnson City, Texas.

The war in Vietnam began long before Lyndon Johnson's Presidency and ended in 1975, years after he left office. But for many Americans, it is the event most closely associated with Johnson's years in the White House.

Lyndon and his spouse (Claudia Alta Taylor) had two girls. The first was Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, and the second daughter was Luci Baines Johnson. His daughter Lynda served as First Lady of Virginia (1982-1986) and before that, as Second Lady of Virginia. (1978-1982)

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The End!