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Let Us Continue is a speech that 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson delivered to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy. The almost 25-minute speech is considered one of the most important in his political career.
The 1966 State of the Union Address was given by Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, on Wednesday, January 12, 1966, to the 89th United States Congress. [1] In the speech, Johnson addressed the then-ongoing war in Vietnam, his Great Society and War on Poverty domestic programs, civil rights, and other matters. [2]
The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973, [371] and the United States Department of Education headquarters was named after Johnson in 2007. [372] The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin was named in his honor, as is the Lyndon B. Johnson National ...
State of the Union address: Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States January 6, 1965 Joint session Counting electoral votes for the 1964 presidential election: None January 20, 1965 Joint session Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson: Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States
President Lyndon Johnson disliked Wilson, and ignored any "special" relationship. [278] Johnson needed and asked for help to maintain American prestige, but Wilson offered only lukewarm verbal support for the Vietnam War. [279] Wilson and Johnson also differed sharply on British economic weakness and its declining status as a world power.
The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country. Johnson first used the phrase in a May 7, 1964, speech at Ohio University. [1]
The 1965 State of the Union Address was given by Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, on Monday, January 4, 1965, to the 89th United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. [2] It was Johnson's second State of the Union Address.
The 1968 State of the Union Address was given by the 36th president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, on Wednesday, January 17, 1968, to the 90th United States Congress. He reported this, "And I report to you that I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people—nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by ...