The 36th president of the United States was Lyndon Baines Johnson, more commonly referred to as LBJ. LBJ was originally the vice president under John F. Kennedy until Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 when LBJ was sworn in shortly after and held the position until 1969. Before his presidency,...
The 1964 election occurred just less than one year after the assassination of Pres.John F. Kennedyin Dallas. Johnson, Kennedy’s vice president, was quickly sworn in, and in the subsequent days Kennedy’s presumed assassin,Lee Harvey Oswald, was murdered. To American and foreign observers alike...