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1 day ago · e. 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. Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1964 ...
2 days ago · Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of 20th-century America. This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, revealing in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman ...
1 day ago · Lyndon B. Johnson. 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. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th ...
1 hour ago · President Joe Biden is set to visit the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin to deliver a Monday speech marking the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The speech ...
2 days ago · Lyndon B. Johnson (born August 27, 1908, Gillespie county, Texas, U.S.—died January 22, 1973, San Antonio, Texas) was the 36th president of the United States (1963–69). A moderate Democrat and vigorous leader in the United States Senate, Johnson was elected vice president in 1960 and acceded to the presidency in 1963 upon the assassination ...
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- Lyndon B. Johnson, frequently called LBJ, was an American politician and moderate Democrat who was president of the United States from 1963 to 1969...
- Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president of the United States alongside President John F. Kennedy in 1960 and acceded to the presidency upon Ke...
- As president, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, the most comprehensive civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, into law; he als...
- By 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson knew he was unlikely to win another presidential election; his increase of American involvement in the Vietnam War, as w...
1 day ago · Lyndon B. Johnson faced a badly divided nation and knew he couldn’t be the one to heal it. ... Of all those years, 1968 was the most fraught. It began with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam ...
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5 days ago · U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson's notes for his brief address at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, November 22, 1963. (more) In Dallas on November 22, 1963, during a political tour of Johnson’s home state, President Kennedy was assassinated. At 2:38 pm that day, Johnson took the oath of office aboard the presidential plane, Air Force One, as it ...
