Johnson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908–73, 36th President of the United States (1963–69), b. near Stonewall, Tex. Early Life Born into a farm family, he graduated (1930) from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Southwest Texas State Univ.), in San Marcos. He ...
Johnson won reelection in a landslide in 1964 over conservative leader Barry Goldwater, and proceeded to push through a massive expansion of federal programs known as the "Welfare State." This included Medicare, food stamps, and federal spending on education. Johnson also supported the Voting Rights...
In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson had intended to nominate Motley to take Marshall’s seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit when he resigned to become solicitor general — a stepping-stone to the Supreme Court in 1967. But then-Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.), remembered...
We welcome them to the society of nations. We are committed to help those seeking to strengthen their own independence, and to work most closely with those governments dedicated to the welfare of all of their people. We seek not fidelity to an iron faith, but a diversity of belief as vari...
徐中川 美国总统演讲名篇赏析 Lecture 11 Lyndon B. Johnson We Shall Overcome.ppt,We Shall Overcome Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation Lyndon Baines Johnson 15 March, 1965, Washington, D.C. Contents Warm-up questions Background inf
, Robert Caro admired LBJ’s liberalism (“civil rights,” the welfare state, which Johnson called “The Great Society,” and in general a big federal big government) but was on the other hand appalled by the man’s crass ego, physical cowardice as both a student...
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 president
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th U.S. president, who championed civil rights and the ‘Great Society’ but unsuccessfully oversaw the Vietnam War. A moderate Democrat and vigorous leader in the Senate, he was elected vice president in 1960 and acceded to t
Of course, people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never taught to read or write, if their bodies are stunted from hunger, if their sickness goes untended, if their life is spent in hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. So we want to open the gates to opportunity. Bu...