Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often called LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969).
A Texas Democrat, he assumed the presidency after Kennedy's assassination and won a landslide election in 1964.
His Great Society programs expanded civil rights, Medicare, and federal education funding, but the Vietnam War consumed his presidency and eroded his support.
He declined to seek reelection in 1968.
1960s federal reform initiative
- Civil Rights ActLaw prohibiting discrimination
- MedicareFederal senior health program
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
- Voting Rights ActLaw against electoral discrimination
Legislative body, often bicameral's elder
- majority leaderParty chief in legislature
- DemocratBlue party supporter
- arm-twistingForceful influence tactics
- persuasionConvincing through reasoning
dealmaking · coalition-building · whip · cloakroom · Hubert Humphrey · bipartisanship · Goldwater · convention
Progressive increase in intensity
- Gulf of TonkinInlet between Vietnam, China
- Tet OffensiveCoordinated 1968 guerrilla assault
- draftPreliminary version of text
- credibility gapPerceived lack of truthfulness
Westmoreland · McNamara · quagmire · body count · domino theory · withdrawal · antiwar protests · teach-ins
Great Society
1960s federal reform initiative
- Civil Rights ActLaw prohibiting discrimination
- MedicareFederal senior health program
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
Voting Rights Act · War on Poverty · Head Start · food stamps
Senate
Legislative body, often bicameral's elder
- majority leaderParty chief in legislature
- DemocratBlue party supporter
- arm-twistingForceful influence tactics
persuasion · dealmaking · coalition-building · whip · cloakroom · Hubert Humphrey · bipartisanship · Goldwater · convention · primaries
escalation
Progressive increase in intensity
- Gulf of TonkinInlet between Vietnam, China
- Tet OffensiveCoordinated 1968 guerrilla assault
- draftPreliminary version of text
credibility gap · Westmoreland · McNamara · quagmire · body count · domino theory · withdrawal · antiwar protests · teach-ins · Pentagon Papers
ranch
Livestock-raising estate
cowboy · oil · barbecue · Stetson · drawl · rancher · cattle · bluebonnet · Texas politics · Southern Democrat
- VeepsJoe Biden, Kamala Harris, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Mike Pence
- Famous TexansSam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, LBJ
- Vietnam War FiguresHo Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger
- Legislative LeadersSpeaker of the House, Senate leader, majority leader, minority leader, majority whip
- Texas Hill CountryFredericksburg, Stonewall, wineries, peach orchards, limestone hills
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
Lyndon JohnsonBarry Goldwater
Ronald Reagan · Calvin Coolidge · Herbert Hoover · Warren Harding · libertarian
Lyndon JohnsonHo Chi Minh
Vietnamese nationalist leader
Muhammad Ali · Jane Fonda · draft resister · Martin Luther King Jr. · Robert Kennedy
Lyndon JohnsonJohn F. Kennedy