Vice-President LyndonB. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President JohnKennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election ...
When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...
"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of LyndonB. Johnson ... In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as JohnF. Kennedy's running mate, was ...