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Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ ˈ l ɪ n d ə n ˈ b eɪ n z /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy , under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963.
Bull Johnson [144] for his reputation for boasting at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Landslide Lyndon , [ 145 ] ironic reference to the Box 13 scandal , a hotly disputed 87-vote win that put him into the Senate in 1948, which became more appropriate in his supporters' eyes following his victory in the 1964 presidential election .
Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, ... Johnson wearing a cowboy hat at his Texas ranch, c. 1972.
Peter Mangan flips through a large folder of newspaper clippings at the Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential library as he prepares to make a donation to the library, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in ...
The Box 13 scandal was a political scandal that occurred in Jim Wells County, Texas, during the 1948 United States Senate elections, regarding disputed votes in a Democratic primary involving Lyndon B. Johnson and Coke Stevenson.
When Lyndon B. Johnson was reelected in 1965, Lady Bird Johnson wore a bright-yellow gown ordered from Neiman Marcus. Pat Nixon, 1969. Pat Nixon. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.
Johnson defeated Porter in November by a narrower margin than Democrats in Texas usually obtained. [119] Johnson returned to Washington as a senator and was permanently dubbed "Landslide Lyndon." Dismissive of his critics, Johnson happily adopted the nickname, [120] [121] though he came to dislike it in later years. [122]
G. Harvey (born Gerald Harvey Jones; 1933 – November 13, 2017) was an American traditionalist artist whose career spanned five decades with a wide range of collectors from Lyndon B. Johnson to Margaret Thatcher and Texas Governor John Connally.