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The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973, [369] and the United States Department of Education headquarters was named after Johnson in 2007. [370] 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 ...
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.
Discussions for a Presidential library for President Johnson began soon after his 1964 election victory. In February 1965, the chairman of the Board of Regents at the University of Texas at Austin, William H. Heath, proposed building the library on the university campus, along with funds to construct the building and the establishment of the Johnson School of Public Affairs on the campus. [2]
Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his presidency. [1] Johnson appointed 184 Article III federal judges, including 2 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 41 to the United States Courts of Appeals, 128 to the United States district courts, 1 to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 4 ...
Listed below are executive orders numbered 11128–11451 signed by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969). He issued 325 executive orders. [ 9 ] His executive orders are also listed on Wikisource , along with his presidential proclamations .
He is the president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation in Austin, Texas. [1] Previously, he served as the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum for eight years. [2] He is the author of six books including, The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, [3] published in 2017.
Pages in category "Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel" The following 134 pages are in this category, out of 134 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
August 9 – President Johnson accepts a proposal from William Womack Heath to build the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. [13] August 10 – Housing and Urban Development Act; August 11 – Watts riots result in 34 deaths, over 1,000 injuries, and widespread property damage and looting in Los Angeles. [14]