Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B.
Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969.
He assumed office after John F.
Kennedy's assassination and won election in his own right in 1964.
His presidency produced landmark civil rights legislation and the Great Society programs, but became consumed by the Vietnam War, which eroded his political support.
Often called LBJ, he declined to seek reelection in 1968.
Federal senior health program
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
- HUDVisual information overlay
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
- upliftRaise emotionally or physically
Formal beginning ceremony
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
- bipartisanshipCooperation between political rivals
Progressive increase in intensity
- draftPreliminary version of text
- quagmireSoft, wet ground
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- dovesGentle cooing birds
hawks · Westmoreland · McNamara · pacification · Hanoi · Saigon
Refuse to answer questions
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- rancherOne who raises livestock
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
- StetsonAmerican hat company
boots · barbecue · frontier · bluebonnets · hospitality
Rejection of mainstream values
- protestsPublic expressions of opposition
- assassinationsMurders of important people
- RFKSlain senator's monogram
- turbulenceChaotic flow patterns
Ending enforced group separation
- integrationCombining into a whole
- equalitySame status for all
- sit-insStationary protest tactics
- SelmaAlabama civil rights city
Medicare
Federal senior health program
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
- HUDVisual information overlay
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
inauguration
Formal beginning ceremony
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
escalation
Progressive increase in intensity
- draftPreliminary version of text
- quagmireSoft, wet ground
- withdrawalAct of taking away
doves · hawks · Westmoreland · McNamara · pacification · Hanoi · Saigon
Stonewall
Refuse to answer questions
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- rancherOne who raises livestock
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
Stetson · boots · barbecue · frontier · bluebonnets · hospitality
counterculture
Rejection of mainstream values
- protestsPublic expressions of opposition
- assassinationsMurders of important people
- RFKSlain senator's monogram
turbulence · upheaval · Watts · Detroit · Newark · 1968 · Chicago
desegregation
Ending enforced group separation
- integrationCombining into a whole
- equalitySame status for all
- sit-insStationary protest tactics
- Texas ParksBig Bend, Huntsville, Lockhart, Stephen F. Austin, Tyler
- War Figuressoldiers, generals, commanders, combatants, military commanders
- Oil Regionsoil boom, oil discovery, oil industry, oil refineries, oil rigs
Lyndon B. JohnsonRonald Reagan
Calvin Coolidge · Barry Goldwater · Herbert Hoover · Warren G. Harding · Grover Cleveland
Lyndon B. JohnsonHo Chi Minh
Vietnamese nationalist leader
Robert F. Kennedy · Muhammad Ali · Jane Fonda · antiwar movement · dovishness
Lyndon B. JohnsonGeorge Wallace
Alabama segregationist politician
segregationists · Jim Crow · segregationism · Dixiecrats · John C. Calhoun