Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, servicing between 1963-1969. From governor to president, Lyndon B Johnson brought color and passion into everything he did. Upon taking office, Johnson, a Texan who had served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, launched a determined slate of progressive reforms aimed at not so strong poverty and creating what he called a “Great Society” for all Americans. Lyndon was known for the passage of civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. Born in Stonewall, Texas, on August 27, 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson’s family had settled in Texas before the Civil War. The nearby town of Johnson City was named after the Johnson family, known for farming and ranching.
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But the Johnson chose not to do anything about it. At age twenty-seven Johnson became the state director of the National Youth Administration. Lyndon Johnson's family moved from a farm near Stonewall, Texas, to Johnson City (a distance of about fourteen miles) two weeks after his fifth birthday, in September 1913. For most of the next twenty-four years, this was their home. In 1913, the family included Lyndon's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; his mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson; young Lyndon; and his sisters, Rebekah and Josefa. Over the years, two more children were born in this house - Lucia and Sam Houston Johnson. The family life that Lyndon Johnson experienced here as he grew to adulthood made the man who became our thirty-sixth …show more content…
Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. During World War II, he served shortly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific. In 1937 he campaigned successfully for the House of Representatives on a New Deal platform, effectively aided by his wife, the former Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor, who he married in 1934. After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948. In 1953, he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, and the next year, when the Democrats won control, Majority Leader. With not so much skill he obtained passage of a number of key Eisenhower measures. Lyndon Johnson was the first president to specify an African American to the Supreme Court when, on June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, to sit on the highest court in the land. However, visions of a Great Society were swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam: the unpopular and costly war crumbled his political base and left him an exile within his own White House. Johnson was nearly killed in World War, he entered the Naval Reserves white still a congressman, and on his only bombing run in the South Pacific, he boarded a plane called the Wabash cannonball for his mission. A last second trip off the plane to use the bathroom saved Johnson’s life. On his return from the facilities, Johnson boarded another plane
But the Johnson chose not to do anything about it. At age twenty-seven Johnson became the state director of the National Youth Administration. Lyndon Johnson's family moved from a farm near Stonewall, Texas, to Johnson City (a distance of about fourteen miles) two weeks after his fifth birthday, in September 1913. For most of the next twenty-four years, this was their home. In 1913, the family included Lyndon's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; his mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson; young Lyndon; and his sisters, Rebekah and Josefa. Over the years, two more children were born in this house - Lucia and Sam Houston Johnson. The family life that Lyndon Johnson experienced here as he grew to adulthood made the man who became our thirty-sixth …show more content…
Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. During World War II, he served shortly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific. In 1937 he campaigned successfully for the House of Representatives on a New Deal platform, effectively aided by his wife, the former Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor, who he married in 1934. After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948. In 1953, he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, and the next year, when the Democrats won control, Majority Leader. With not so much skill he obtained passage of a number of key Eisenhower measures. Lyndon Johnson was the first president to specify an African American to the Supreme Court when, on June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, to sit on the highest court in the land. However, visions of a Great Society were swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam: the unpopular and costly war crumbled his political base and left him an exile within his own White House. Johnson was nearly killed in World War, he entered the Naval Reserves white still a congressman, and on his only bombing run in the South Pacific, he boarded a plane called the Wabash cannonball for his mission. A last second trip off the plane to use the bathroom saved Johnson’s life. On his return from the facilities, Johnson boarded another plane