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| | MSN Encarta - Lyndon Johnson |
 | | Johnson was one of the most masterful politicians in the history of the Congress of the United States. | | | Johnson arrived in Washington, D.C., to witness the last months of the administration of President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) and the return to national power of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945). | | | Johnson was the first candidate from a Southern state to be elected president of the United States for more than a century. |
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| | Lyndon Johnson |
| | By the mid-1950’s, Senator Johnson was clearly altering his stance on civil rights issues, being one of few Southern politicians who supported the 1954 BROWN decision by the Supreme Court. | | | Johnson was also seen to be pro-African Americans in other ways, by appointing an African American Supreme Court judge, Thurgood Marshall. | | | Johnson however, due to political expediency, was forced to vote with his fellow Southern Democrats in Congress, against civil rights measures such as banning lynching, eliminating poll taxes and denying federal funding to segregated schools, measures which later would make up ground breaking legislation. |
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| | Lyndon B. Johnson: Biography and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Johnson died on January 22, 1973 from heart disease at his ranch, at the age of 64 and was honored with a state funeral. | | | Johnson appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States: | | | In 1954, Johnson was re-elected to the Senate and since the Democrats won the majority in Senate, Johnson became majority leader. |
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| | LBJ Biography |
| | Johnson won the primary by 87 votes and earned the nickname "Landslide Lyndon." In the general election, November 2, he defeated the Republican, Jack Porter, and was elected to the U. Senate. | | | Johnson considered the highlights of his Senate career to be the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the vitalization of the United States space program. | | | Johnson backed Roosevelt 100% and handily won the election on April 10. |
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| | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Encyclopedia: Lyndon Johnson |
| | Under Johnson, two landmark pieces of civil rights legislation were passed: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided for federal enforcement of voter registration and outlawed literacy tests. | | | One of Johnson's Senate allies even publicly attacked King for his antiwar position, suggesting that an investigation may be launched to look into whether King violated federal laws against interfering in foreign policy. | | | Johnson believed this program would ultimately benefit the black community, but he told King and other civil rights leaders that he would have difficulty passing voting rights legislation. |
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| | American President |
| | In 1937, Johnson resigned as the state director of the National Youth Administration and won election to Congress, representing his home district as an ally of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. | | | Lyndon's father had the gregarious gifts of a politician, and three years before Lyndon's birth, at the age of twenty-seven, he began serving as a Texas state representative. | | | Despite Johnson’s announcement of his own candidacy, Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. |
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| | Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States |
| | Johnson, with Hubert H. Humphry as his running mate, ran a low-key campaign and overwhelmed Goldwater in the election. | | | Johnson was appointed by Kennedy to head the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities, a post that enabled him to work on behalf of blacks and other minorities. | | | Although these laws proved ineffective, Johnson had demonstrated that he was a very resourceful Senate leader. |
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| | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| | Johnson was appointed Democratic Party whip in 1951 and over the next four years impressed the leaders of the party with his ability to do deals with people of different political opinions. | | | Johnson was eventually cleared by Hoover of corruption and was allowed to take his seat in the Senate. | | | Johnson was also able to persuade conservative Democrats in the Southern states to support Kennedy. |
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| | Lyndon Johnson's Obituary |
| | Johnson's death, Richard M. Nixon, the Republican who was elected in 1968, took the oath of office for his second term as President. | | | Johnson told a friend that he was not feeling very well and said that that was why he had not gone to Washington for the inauguration of President Nixon. | | | Johnson left to the nation a legacy of progress and innovation in civil rights, Social Security, education, housing and other programs attesting to his fundamental affection for his fellow Americans. |
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| | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| | Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948 after he had captured the Democratic nomination by only 87 votes. | | | At the height of his power as Senate leader, Johnson sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1960. | | | Two years later, he was elected to Congress as an all-out supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and served until 1949. |
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| | LBJ's Boyhood Home at Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park |
| | It was the first week of March, 1937, when Lyndon Johnson stood on the porch of his boyhood home to announce his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives for the Tenth District of the State of Texas. | | | Among other lessons, young Lyndon learned we should never form opinions based on first impressions and that power should be used for the public good, in the tradition of Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. | | | The family life that Lyndon Johnson experienced here as he grew to adulthood strongly influenced the man who became our thirty-sixth President. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| | There were no more Johnson accomplishments to match the drama of the civil rights battle, and Caro saves the story of Johnson's fight for both the Democratic presidential nomination and a third term in the Senate for an upcoming fourth volume on the LBJ saga. | | | The story of this volume is Johnson's transformation from a typical Southern Senator, with all the baggage that entails, to the man who masterminded the passage of the first Civil Rights law in one hundred years. | | | Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President by Robert Dallek |
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| | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| | Lyndon B. Johnson was once engaged to the daughter of a Texas Ku Klux Klan leader. | | | Lyndon B. Johnson was the youngest senate majority leader. | | | He was named after W.C. Linden, a lawyer and family friend. |
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| | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| | Thus, when he surrendered his position as Senate majority leader to become John Kennedy's Vice President in 1961, it was inevitable that Johnson should bridle at the political limbo of his new office. | | | First, Johnson often did not keep his appointments for sittings. | | | This portrait by Peter Hurd was meant to be Johnson's official White House likeness. |
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| | Naval Service of Lyndon B. Johnson |
| | In 1935 Johnson spent one year at Georgetown Law School and then became the State Director of the National Youth Administration of Texas. | | | In 1937, Johnson resigned this position to become a candidate for the unexpired term of Congressman James P. Buchanan from the Tenth District of Texas. | | | Born to Samuel Ealy and Rebekah Baines Johnson on 27 August 1908, Johnson attended public schools in Blanco County, Texas, until he graduated from high school in 1924. |
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| | Character Above All: Lyndon B. Johnson Essay |
| | He had a compulsion to be the best, to outdo everybody, to eclipse all his predecessors in the White House and become the greatest president in American history. | | | By 1967, Georgia senator Richard Russell, a Johnson mentor, couldn't bear to see Johnson alone at the White House, because the President would cry uncontrollably.... | | | It was his war, being fought by his "boys," with his helicopters and his planes and guns. |
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| | Presidential Inaugurations: Lyndon B. Johnson, Inauguration, January 20, 1965 |
| | Transcription from The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. | | | [Crowd on Capitol grounds, attending inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, January 20, 1965]. | | | Presidential Inaugurations: Lyndon B. Johnson, Inauguration, January 20, 1965 |
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| | American Experience The Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson PBS |
| | Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. | | | An unpopular and costly war, however, eroded his political base and left him an exile within his own White House... | | | World Timeline - See a timeline of world events during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. |
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| | LBJ in the Oval Office |
| | Johnson's Address to a Joint Session of Congress introducing the Voting Rights Act, March 15, 1965 | | | At this site, you can listen to some President Lyndon Johnson's most important speeches and peer into the Oval Office through secretly recorded conversations made by Johnson during his presidency. | | | Johnson's Address on Civil Rights, June 4, 1965 |
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| | President Lyndon Johnson: Health & Medical History |
| | As I turned to continue to Trauma Room 1, there was Lyndon Johnson, being ushered into one of the minor-medicine cubicles... | | | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | | | Alternate index terms: Medical history of President Johnson, Medical history of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Medical history of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Medical history of LBJ. |
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| | The Avalon Project : Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| | The Avalon Project : Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson | | | For myself, I ask only, in the words of an ancient leader: "Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?" | | | My fellow countrymen, on this occasion, the oath I have taken before you and before God is not mine alone, but ours together. |
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| | Great Society Speech, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 |
| | Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, Book I (1963-64), p. | | | President Hatcher, Governor Romney, Senators McNamara and Hart, Congressmen Meader and Staebler, and other members of the fine Michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow Americans: | | | So let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say: It was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life. |
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| | Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park (National Park Service) |
| | The Johnson family generously continues to add to this property; their most recent donation of acreage was in April, 1995. | | | Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park tells the story of our 36th President in a unique and encompassing way. | | | Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park (National Park Service) |
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| | President Lyndon Johnson's Grave (Unvisited) |
| | President Johnson lies buried in Johnson Family Cemetery at the Johnson Ranch in Stonewall, Texas (between Johnson City and Fredericksburg). | | | Lady Bird will be buried in the empty space to the left of his gravestone. | | | ...The Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is near Johnson's Ranch and gravesite... |
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| | Lyndon Johnson (I) |
| | Find where Lyndon Johnson is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Lyndon Johnson (I) | | | The Atomic Cafe (1982) (as Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson).... |
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| | Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
| | For Bird, still a girl of principles, ideals and refinement - from her admirer, Lyndon. | | | Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. |
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