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 Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), former US President

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the 37th Vice President; in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, comprising liberal legislation including civil rights laws, Medicare (health care for the elderly), Medicaid (health care for the poor), aid to education, and a major "War on Poverty". Simultaneously he escalated the Vietnam War, from 16,000 American soldiers in 1963 to 550,000 in early 1968, of whom over 1000 were killed every month.

He was elected President in his own right in a landslide in 1964, but his popularity steadily declined after 1966 and his reelection bid in 1968 collapsed as a result of turmoil in his party. He withdrew from the race to concentrate on peacemaking. Johnson was renowned for his domineering personality and arm twisting of powerful politicians. wikipedia

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The Democrat party has been working toward becoming the savior of the masses for a long time, going back to the sixties and LBJ. That's Lyndon B. Johnson ...
... the underlying problem of housing is resolved," said James Galbraith, an economics professor at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs. ...
President Lyndon Johnson was effectively driven from office in 1968 by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive. In response to it, and to his relatively narrow ...
Lyndon B. Johnson, the vice president Bobby Kennedy had fought to prevent, was magnificent during those first years as president. ...

For an hour, the students in Jibladze's advanced placement economics course at the liberal arts and science Academy at LBJ High School were fearless, ...
Obama will win a landslide, and he will have a Democratic Congress that will have numbers akin to what LBJ had in 1965 when he pushed through the Great ...
He quoted LBJ to make his point: "it's like wearing dark pants and p---ing down your leg. It gives you a warm feeling, but no one knows you did it. ...
Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon were also presidents who had a lot of experience prior to their respective presidencies. Although LBJ's presidency is ...
Lyndon Johnson's mentor and friend, he was ultimately betrayed by the future president and fellow Texan, according to LBJ biographer Robert Caro. ...
So did Lyndon Johnson, a later vice president who assumed the presidency in 1963 after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. "Harry Truman, who succeeded to ...
Legislators can win, like Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon, but they usually need some time outside Capitol Hill before voters will elect them. ...
If nothing else, Obama is forcing McCain to spend more money in a state that hasn't voted for a Dem for president for 44 years -- LBJ in 1964.
The same office where President Lyndon B. Johnson once conducted the nation's business in the comfort of his Stonewall ranch home will be part of the scenic ...
In his book "Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism," Bruce J. Schulman, a history professor at Boston University, relates how one such master was able ...
In the 1982 TV biopic "A Woman Called Golda," LBJ's veep was played by Franklin Cover, best known for his years as Tom Willis, neighbor of George and ...
Amazing pictures from out of this world are now on display at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library & Museum. One of the artworks by former astronaut ...
Alan Bean said he feels like the luckiest man in the world, both here on Earth and in the skies above. "I remember saying, 'This is the moon, we're really ...
However, to get to that point LBJ was in constant communication with House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Mr. Sam's allies with the Democratic Study Group ...
In his office at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Ray Marshall works quietly from his plush office chair, but he still remembers ...
One has to go back to Lyndon Johnson to find a vice president who made even the slightest difference in the election outcome (LBJ was said to have helped ...
"For too long, our veterans have had to pay for part of their medical care at LBJ for service-connected illnesses and disabilities, and this was simply ...
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Alumni Association presented Anne Dunkelberg with its distinguished public service award. ...
The Museum at the George Bush Presidential Library and the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, in partnership with NASA's Johnson Space Center and Space ...
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson refused to debate Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. By mid-September of that year, a Gallup poll showed Johnson leading ...
... says the federal government should take part of the blame for the detiorating standard of health care available at the LBJ Medical Centre. ...
In 1960, JFK's running mate, Lyndon Johnson, brought his whistlestop campaign train to Culpeper. "The Yellow Rose of Texas" blared and Johnson leaned out ...
The report said one of the LBJ Center 's most serious problems is recruiting and retaining physicians and overworking the ones it does have. ...
By Richard Tijerina | Monday, September 29, 2008, 05:10 PM Texas A&M freshman linebacker Ricky Cavanaugh, an LBJ product, had his redshirt pulled against ...
In 1960, John F. Kennedy's running mate, Lyndon Johnson, brought his whistle stop campaign train to Culpeper. "The Yellow Rose of Texas" blared and Johnson ...
The LBJ Museum of San Marcos joins Texas State University in its extended celebration. "Remembering LBJ and His Legacy: Local Recollections - An Oral ...
You may remember that I was writing about my own first political awareness during the 1948 senatorial contest between Lyndon Johnson and Gov. ...
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm," Lyndon B. Johnson once said. "There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. ...
Lyndon Johnson's "All the Way With LBJ" had the rhyme but not much else. This year, Barack Obama's "change" slogans seem generic, Roberts said. ...
Later, inspired by LBJ's "great society," we became a "superpower" that seems to be incapable of finding the perpetrator of the 9/11 attacks. ...
Lyndon Johnson at least had the excuse that the Vietnam crisis was thrust upon him and he had to react one way or another. But Bush chose to initiate a war ...
12 crosses a cove on Lake LBJ (hint: picking the right club in the wind is crucial). My favorite hole, and the most scenic, was the signature No. ...
The resort is on the southern shore of Lake LBJ - part of the Colorado River's chain of six Highland Lakes - and it's also dotted with created water ...
Mums will be on sale next week at the campus and at Victory Cleaners on LBJ Dr. SMHS will play its Homecoming game against New Braunfels Canyon High School ...
From retired Adm. Bobby Inman, who holds the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at UT's LBJ School. Inman served as director of the ...
To provide a local perspective of the financial crisis and how it could affect Central Texans, economist James Galbraith with the University of Texas LBJ ...

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