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Lyndon Baines Johnson ( / ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
Lyndon B. Johnson 's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
19 hours ago · Arriving at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Monday President Biden hopes to revisit the mountaintop of LBJ’s greatest achievement: passage of the 1964 Civil Rights ...
Jul 3, 2024 · Less than a week after Johnson announced his decision not to run for reelection, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot by a sniper on April 4, an event that sparked a wave of violence and riots...
Apr 2, 2014 · Lyndon Baines Johnson (often referred to as “LBJ”) was elected vice president of the United States in 1960 and was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States in 1963 after President...
Lyndon Baines Johnson was born just after the turn of the 20th century in the rugged and isolated Hill Country of Texas. It was a character-building, hardscrabble land where he learned the lessons of loyalty, the arts of persuasion and power, and the insecurity of lean times.
1 day ago · The Humphrey-Muskie ticket would lose in November to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, two men who later ended up resigning from office in disgrace. A political animal to the last, it seems unlikely that Johnson—“All the Way with LBJ” was a slogan he used in more than one campaign—could ever really be “above politics.”.
Oct 29, 2009 · Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States and was sworn into office following the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Upon taking...
1 day ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden, who belatedly opted against seeking reelection, on Monday will pay a visit to the library of the last president to make the same difficult choice, more than a ...
Jan 19, 2023 · Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States and the architect of some of the most significant federal social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, died fifty years ago...
