Lyndon Johnson

Lyndon Johnson had Congress levy a Vietnam War surtax lest the growing debt from the war and the Great Society get out of hand.

I grew up in the era of the space race and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, when science, the arts, and education generally were respected.

In 1965, in an attempt to grant blacks the right to vote in the South, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act.

Within a few months, those consequences would come crashing down on Lyndon Johnson.

The joint chiefs of staff were warned by their chairman, Maxwell Taylor, that Lyndon Johnson did not like "split advice" .

This was perhaps not so surprising for a man Lyndon Johnson once said had "played too much football with his helmet off" .

The act was mostly the result of civil rights movement and was strongly supported by President Lyndon Johnson.

Lyndon Johnson was a skilled election rigger, and John F Kennedy, it is likely, won office thanks to the Mafia friends of his father.

After I watched President Kennedy's funeral and was reassured by Lyndon Johnson's sober assumption of the presidency with the moving words.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. -----Lyndon Johnson.

The next day, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.

President Lyndon Johnson reportedly watched Cronkite's report and concluded that the war had now lost the backing of America's middle class.

It survived in this form until 1968, when Lyndon Johnson, then the US president, turned Fannie into a "government-sponsored enterprise" .

As the president Lyndon Johnson signed the Executive Order 11246 in 1965, which marked the affirmative action had been formally tabled.

It's why Lyndon Johnson established Medicare at the peak of the long post-World War II expansion.

I am too old to consider short-term romantic events. Those were my life when Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were in the White House.

Mister Loomis believed VOA should report about the war honestly, without censorship from the Administration of President Lyndon Johnson.

The best known rider less horse was Black Jack. He took part in the funerals of presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

Less than one year later, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, ending segregation practices.

And he opposed President Lyndon Johnson on the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Memories of how Vietnam spiked Lyndon Johnson's dreams of a Great Society haunt party elders.

A clever choice of VP can put a candidate over the top (most famously with JFK and Lyndon Johnson in 1960).

The president was Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat who sent more troops to Vietnam. Johnson was formerly vice president.

The Council of Economic Advisers warned Lyndon Johnson about the dangers of a worldwide depression.

At the ceremony in 1964 formalizing the 24th Amendment, President Lyndon Johnson noted that: "There can be no one too poor to vote. "

US President Lyndon Johnson used a second, and highly disputed, second clash to justify air strikes on naval bases in the north.

Democratic memories are haunted by Lyndon Johnson, whose ambition to build a Great Society was thwarted by escalation in Vietnam.

The rebel attack injured First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu (pictured left, with Lyndon Johnson), who fell while running to the bomb shelter.

His opposition to the Vietnam War cost him the support of white allies, including President Lyndon Johnson.

While studying the topic, he was asked by Lyndon Johnson's administration to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.

But he had become steadily disenchanted with Lyndon Johnson's vast social programmes and the view of human nature they assumed.

She married Lyndon Johnson in 1934, when he was a congressional aide.

Robert Caro won a Pulitzer Prize for his third book about former President Lyndon Johnson.

Four years later, Congress passed Medicare, the emblematic achievement of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

And who would have thought that Mr Bush would back the largest expansion of federal entitlement programmes since President Lyndon Johnson?

His patients included American presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

He took part in the funerals of presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

Friends pay their respects to Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon Johnson in the service in Austin, Texas.

Lyndon Johnson attacked steelmakers who raised prices as unpatriotic.

During his life, Adair received Special Letters of Recognition from Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and George H.

Democrats have a Caucasian problem. It is not new: no Democratic presidential candidate has won the white vote since Lyndon Johnson.

But it wasn't until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

Holbrooke, born in New York City on April 24, 1941, served under Presidents Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Carter, Bill Clinton and Obama.

Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as father's Day.

Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed Waterloo the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1966, 100 years after the first commemoration.

It even blames Lyndon Johnson for helping in the cover-up.

(Laugher) And the theme of the article was how to remove Lyndon Johnson from power.

And it was in 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson officially declared the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Reagan will be the 10th former president to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and the first since Lyndon Johnson in 1973.

Southern Democrats such as Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn dominated Congress before the civil-rights era.

That is, until your new pal pulls a Lyndon Johnson and gets really friendly.

When I stuck my head through the open door from Evelyn Lincoln 's office, I saw Lyndon Johnson sitting by the desk.

So I think that's as blatant a lie as we ever heard from Lyndon Johnson.

"Great Society" of Lyndon Johnson and the Maturity of American Industrial Society

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LYNDON JOHNSON'S GREAT SOCIETY