Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Born August 27, 1908 in stonewall. tx
- Married Claudia Alta Taylor
- 3sisters 1 brother
- Moved to California after he graduated to do odd job
- he became a teacher
- became texas director of the NYA
- Brought Electricity to texAs hill country
- WW2 became congressional inspector
- signed the Elementary secondary education ct and higher education act to improve funding to schools especially those in poor districts
- signed civil rights act outlawing racial segregation
- appointed thurgood marshall as 1st african american justice on Supreme court
- Established the National endowment for the humanities and the national endowment for the arts to support humanists and artists
- created programs for poverty like food stamps, work study, and medicare
- presided over the first manned flight to the moon with the apollo 8 program
Accomplishments
- Served on a tour of the south pacific and glew one combat mission
- had to come back because of mechanical difficulty but received a silver star
- signed the immigration act of 1965 which substantially liberalized us immigration policy toward non europeans
- increased troops in vietnam
Election
- 61.1% popular core
- 44 out of 50 states and district of columbia
- Alaska fro democrats for the 1st and only time
- 486 votes
- opponent was barry m goldwater.
- his approval rating was 74.2 at its highest was november 1963-january 1965
Legacy
- He extended the new deal
- Vietnam war made people question if he was right for us
- Vietnamese lost homes and lives
- US lives were altered and 58,000 american personnel lost their lives.
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