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During his tenure as Majority Leader, Johnson did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, [88] [89] and shepherded the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 to passage — the first civil rights bills to pass Congress since the Enforcement Acts and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 during Reconstruction. [95]
Johnson represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1949 to 1961, and served as the Democratic leader in the Senate beginning in 1953. [1] He sought the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, but was defeated by John F. Kennedy. Hoping to shore up support in the South and West, Kennedy asked Johnson to serve as his running mate, and ...
William Hague, a former British Conservative Party leader and foreign secretary, nominated Means of Ascent as the book he would most like to have with him on a desert island, in the BBC Radio 4 program Desert Island Discs. He later wrote: "I explained that it was the best political biography of any kind, that I had ever read.
January 1 – The White House announces that President Johnson has ordered an inquiry by the government into increases in selective steel prices. [2]January 3 – President Johnson attends church services and visits the grave of the late President John F. Kennedy.
At 6:10 pm, after landing at Andrews amid a crowd of congressional leaders, he walked to an already prepared set of microphones and began his first public statement as president: [1] [11] This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy.
Lindon, also spelled Lyndon is both a surname and a given name of english origins, meaning "linden tree hill". Notable people with the name include: Notable people with the name include: Surname
Caro's editor Robert Gottlieb initially suggested the Johnson project to Caro in preference to the planned follow-up to the Moses volume, a biography of Fiorello LaGuardia. The ex-president had recently died and Caro had already decided, before meeting with Gottlieb on the subject, to undertake his biography; he "wanted to write about power". [15]
March 7 – President Johnson signs Executive Order 11333, suspending "until June 29, 1968, the provisions of section 6374 of title 10 of the United States Code, but only with respect to a brigadier general on the active list of the Marine Corps whose second failure of selection for promotion to the grade of major general occurred during the ...