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Lyndon B. Johnson: President Lyndon B. Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson replaced the assassinated John F. Kennedy as U.S. president and presided over major social reforms as well as the expansion of the Vietnam War. Known as a politician's politician, "LBJ" was a senator from Texas and had been a powerful member of the Democratic party for two decades when he challenged Kennedy for the presidential nomination in 1960. (Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower was stepping down after eight years.) Kennedy got the nod, then picked Johnson as his running mate. Kennedy beat Eisenhower's vice-president, Richard M. Nixon, in the general election, and Johnson became vice-president in 1961. But as fate would have it, Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on 22 November 1963 and Johnson succeeded to the presidency. Easily re-elected over staunch conservative Barry Goldwater in 1964, LBJ was able to pass sweeping social legislation including the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Lyndon Johnson was born on a farm in Stonewall, Texas on August 27, 1908. Lyndon, as a child, was very poor and went to a one-room schoolhouse where he always kept a slingshot in his desk. He earned a teaching degree from Texas State Teachers College, now Texas State University. Lyndon met Lady Bird Johnson and asked her to marry him all in the same day. They had a wedding four months later. While he was running for President he had his daughter, Luci, campaign for him when she was only sixteen years old.
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March 20, 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a telegram to Governor George Wallace of Alabama in which he agrees to send federal troops to supervise a planned African-American civil-rights march in Wallace’s home state. Wallace appeared on television that evening and demanded that Johnson send in federal troops instead. Wallace’s demand was a calculated ploy--he "excused" Alabama state police from their duty and left the responsibility to keep the peace in Johnson’s lap. If Johnson’s federal troops got involved in a violent altercation between marchers and white segregationists, Johnson, not Wallace, would appear as the "bad guy." Johnson reacted to Wallace’s double-cross by calling him a "no-good son of a b----!" during a taped phone conversation at the White House.
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The tours pass by the one-room Junction School first attended by the four-year-old Lyndon B. Johnson in 1912 and stop by his reconstructed birthplace and the nearby Johnson family cemetery where the former President is buried. Tours ... go throughout the working LBJ Ranch where cattle still are raised. A fee is charged for the tour. More information on N.P.S. tours at LBJ ranch.
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While historians search the record and evaluate its significance, there seems little doubt that Lyndon Johnson's impress on the form and quality of life in the United States will be seen to be large. In the fields of health, education, civil rights, conservation, and the problem of the elderly, his legislative achievements have left their clear mark. His insistence that the pledges of the four preceding presidents be upheld in Southeast Asia is a subject for debate. But it must be argued that his peace-keeping efforts in the Middle East, in the Near East, in Africa, and in Latin America were forceful, remedial, and worthy of praise; the results have proved his policies' merits.
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At 2:38 PM, on Nov. 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office as 36th president of the United States. On his right stood his wife, Lady Bird. On his left stood Jacqueline Kennedy, stony-faced with shock. Less than two hours earlier, President John F. Kennedy had died in a Dallas, Tex., hospital from an assassin's bullets.
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