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President Lyndon B. Johnson
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1963 |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
(LBJ)
becomes the 36th U.S. President upon the death of
J.F.K.
Johnson serves from 1963 to 1969.
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Next Term |
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Vice |
Johnson
had no Vice President for his first term as President. The
Speaker of the House, John W. McCormack, became next in line to
succeed to the presidency, had the need arose. |
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First Lady |
Claudia
Alta "Lady Bird" (Taylor) Johnson is First Lady and they had 2
children. |
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Johnson was a
democrat from
Texas.
Johnson obtained the Tax cuts that
Kennedy had initiated. Those
tax cuts resulted in economic growth that caused increases in
tax revenues. That concept, later under
President Reagan, becomes known as "Trickle Down Economics." |
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Oath |
Having assumed office
upon the death of President Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
was
sworn in while aboard Air Force One as it transports
President Kennedy's casket to
Washington, D.C.
on January 20th. He was not
inaugurated. Johnson stated, "We can never again stand aside,
prideful in isolation. Terrific dangers and troubles that we
once called "foreign" now constantly live among us..." |
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"A president's
hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is
right." - President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
"If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others
what they are unable to do for themselves." - democrat, Lyndon
Baines Johnson.
"You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'." - President
Lyndon Baines Johnson. |
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President Lyndon Baines Johnson
is elected in 1964, remaining in office.
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Vice Pres. |
Hubert
Horatio Humphrey is Vice President.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1980.
Humphrey was born in Wallace, Codington County,
South
Dakota on
May 27, 1911.
He died of cancer at Waverly, Wright County,
Minnesota on
January 13, 1978. |
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Johnson was a
democrat from
Texas.
Johnson's agenda was called the "Great Society," though
war-protests occurred nation-wide.
The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and Medicare were
signed into law by Johnson.
The Vietnam war escalates under his administration.
In 1968 Johnson had announced and then withdrew his candidacy
for re-election to devote his efforts in the quest for peace. |
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Inaug. Addr. |
"Under this covenant of
justice, liberty, and union we have become a nation... prosperous,
great, and mighty. And we have kept our freedom. But we have no
promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been
allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and
the strength of our spirit." - President Lyndon Baines Johnson,
Inaugural Address. |
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"For this is what
America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the
unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the
harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. . ." - President Lyndon
Baines Johnson.
President Johnson congratulates the 3 astronauts who had
successfully orbited the moon in December, 1968 by saying,
"You've taken ... all of us, all over the world, into a new era.
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Birth Death |
Lyndon B. Johnson was
born on August 27, 1908 near Stonewall in Gillespie County,
Texas.
President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his
Texas Ranch on January
22, 1973 of a heart attack. |
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Index |
Links |
The
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Lyndon Baines Johnson - White House
History
Presidential Elections
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Executive Jumps -
G Washington
- J Adams -
T
Jefferson - J Madison -
J Monroe -
J Q
Adams - A Jackson -
- M Van Buren -
W
H Harrison - J Tyler -
J Polk -
Z Taylor -
M Fillmore -
F Pierce
- J Buchanan -
A
Lincoln - A Johnson -
- U S Grant -
R B Hayes
- J Garfield -
C
Arthur - G Cleveland -
B Harrison -
G
Cleveland - W McKinley -
T Roosevelt -
- W Taft
- W Wilson -
W Harding
- C Coolidge -
H
Hoover - F D Roosevelt -
H Truman -
D D Eisenhower
- J F Kennedy -
- L B Johnson -
R Nixon -
G Ford -
J Carter -
R Reagan -
G H W Bush
- B Clinton -
G W Bush
- BH Obama -
- Methodology -
TimeLine of the Presidency -
Inauguration Speeches
- Party Platforms
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The Early Presidents
- Distinctions of the
Presidencies
Black
American Patriots -
President's Day -
Rhymes about the
Founding Fathers
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