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  1. Feb 2, 2021 · President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was a sweeping set of social domestic policy programs initiated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during 1964 and 1965 focusing mainly on eliminating racial injustice and ending poverty in the United States. The term “Great Society” was first used by President Johnson in a speech at Ohio University.

  2. Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) was vice president of the United States under John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) and became the 36th president after Kennedy’s assassination. Born in rural Texas, Johnson trained as a teacher then worked for a time in a one-room schoolhouse.

  3. Lyndon B. Johnson's visionary set of legislation turns 50. In just under five years in the 1960s, Lyndon B. Johnson enacted nearly 200 pieces of legislation known as the Great Society, an ...

  4. Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often called by his initials LBJ, was an American politician.He was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

  5. The Lyndon Johnson presidency marked a vast expansion in the role of the national government in domestic affairs. Johnson laid out his vision of that role in a commencement speech at the University of Michigan on May 22, 1964.

  6. Jan 4, 2017 · But that’s just what President Lyndon B. Johnson declared in his State of the Union address to Congress on January 4, 1965. During that address, he urged Congress to pass legislation which later became a mélange of programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps, and Head Start, among others intended to win what Johnson called a War on Poverty.

  7. 4 days ago · Lyndon B. Johnson - 36th President, Civil Rights, Vietnam War: In Dallas on November 22, 1963, during a political tour of Johnson’s home state, President Kennedy was assassinated. At 2:38 pm that day, Johnson took the oath of office aboard the presidential plane, Air Force One, as it stood on the tarmac at Love Field, Dallas, waiting to take Kennedy’s remains back to Washington. In one ...

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