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After leaving the presidency in January 1969, Johnson went home to his ranch in Stonewall, Texas, accompanied by former aide and speechwriter Harry J. Middleton, who would draft Johnson's first book, The Choices We Face, and work with him on his memoirs, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963–1969, published in 1971. [335]
The office of vice president remained vacant during Johnson's first (425-day partial) term, as at the time there was no way to fill a vacancy in the vice presidency. Johnson selected Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, a leading liberal, as his running mate in the 1964 election, and Humphrey served as vice president throughout Johnson's ...
January 3 – President Johnson attends church services and visits the grave of the late President John F. Kennedy. [3] January 4 – President Johnson delivers the 1965 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, launching the Great Society program and saying additional ideas will be sent to Congress within six weeks. [4]
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, setting the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with a new, distinct administration. [13] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is ...
Members of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential parties filled the central compartment of the plane to witness the swearing in. At 2:38 p.m. CST, Lyndon Baines Johnson took the oath of office as the 36th President of the United States. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Johnson stood at the side of the new President as he took the oath of office.
April 10 – President Johnson holds his one hundred and twenty-third news conference in his White House office during the afternoon, answering questions from reporters on the civil rights bill, the President's Commission on Civil Disorders, exchanges with Hanoi, the whereabouts of John S. McCain, Jr., and Vice President Humphrey's potential ...
President Johnson may refer to: Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), 17th president of the United States (1865–1869) Presidency of Andrew Johnson, his presidency; Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901), 11th president of Liberia; Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), 36th president of the United States (1963–1969) Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, his ...
February 1 – In a letter to United States Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor, President Johnson confirms he has read Connor's report "on the fine progress that has been made in implementing Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965" and commending him along with "ESSA management, and all ESSA employees for the efficiency and sensitivity which have contributed to carrying out this reorganization."