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Lyndon Johnson had a passion for youth and always loved to be around kids. Lyndon Johnson taught in a poor school where he helped a group of underprivileged Hispanics. He gave 75% of his salary to help his school pay for equipment that benefited the children. He always helped people in need.
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The crowning event of Johnson's presidency was the success of the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon in December 1968. Johnson was succeeded by Richard M. Nixon, a Republican, on Jan. 20, 1969. Johnson retired to his Texas ranch. There he wrote ‘The Vantage Point' (1971) and helped establish both a library to house his presidential papers and the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public…
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Johnson decided to make his way to California with a five friends in an automobile he had purchased. There he performed odd jobs, picking fruit, washing cars and one as an elevator operator. A year later he hitchhiked home where he worked on a road construction gang. His mother had impressed the importance of a college education on him while he was growing up and in 1927 he decided to follow her advice. He enrolled in nearby Southwest Texas State Teachers College where he eventually received his B.S. after interrupting his education to teach Mexican children in the town on Cotulla in South Texas. After graduation, he accepted a teaching position at Sam Houston High School in Houston, where his uncle was chairman of the History department.
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In 1932 Johnson moved to Washington, D.C. to work as an aide to Congressman Richard Kleberg. He briefly attended law school at Georgetown. In 1934 Johnson married Claudia Taylor (known as "Lady Bird"), with whom he had two daughters, Lynda (b. 1944) and Luci (b. 1947). In 1935, Johnson returned to Texas to run the Texas National Youth Administration, which created jobs for young people during the Depression.
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Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught grade school for a year in Cotulla before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg.
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Born on August 27, 1908 in Texas, Johnson grew up the son of a politician. He worked throughout his youth to earn money for the family. His mother taught him to read at an early age. He went to local public schools, graduating from high school in 1924. He spent three years traveling around and working at odd jobs before going to the Southwest Texas State Teachers College. He graduated in 1930 and attended Georgetown University to study law from 1934-35.
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