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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.
Humphrey took office on January 20, 1965, [142] ending the 14-month vacancy of the vice president of the United States, which had remained empty when then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963. [143] He was an early skeptic of the then growing Vietnam War.
The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2]
The election was held to replace outgoing Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, who had been elected Vice President of the United States. Republican John Tower, who had been the nominee for the regularly scheduled election in 1960, defeated 70 other candidates to become the first Republican to represent Texas in the Senate since Reconstruction in 1877.
President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965. After the end of Reconstruction, most Southern states enacted laws designed to disenfranchise and marginalize black citizens from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment.
Fortas with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 On July 28, 1965, President Johnson nominated Fortas as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court , [ 22 ] to succeed Arthur Goldberg , who had resigned to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations following the death of Adlai Stevenson .
From 2009 to 2017, he was the fourth director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. L-R: Updegrove with former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and John Lewis tour The Great Hall at the LBJ Presidential Library , April 10, 2014 Former President George W. Bush arrives at the LBJ Presidential ...
Governor Rockefeller meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 Rockefeller resigned from the federal government in 1956 to focus on New York State and on national politics. [ 46 ] From September 1956 to April 1958, he chaired the Temporary State Commission on the Constitutional Convention. [ 47 ]