Lyndon Johnson was the 36th president. Lyndon Johnson had the most popular votes in the 1964 election. He had come to office a a year earlier following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He won 61.1% of the popular votes the highest won by a candidate since 1820. He was president from 1963-1969. He was JFKs vice president, but then he got assassinated. Johnson was Democratic. Johnson didn't run again because of the Vietnam war and his poor health. The African American had always voted republican, up until Johnson passed the civil rights act. Vietnam War is what really brought Johnson down. He passed Medicare and Medicade. He was against poverty and wanted people to have good health care. Passed voting rights act which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time. He passed immigration act of 1965 which allowed more non-European people to immigrate to US immigration more than doubled between 1965-1970.
I think he did a lot of things for our country and was a good president.
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This is off topic Tina. Johnson was President in the 1960's. We are in the 1930's. Your pictures also did not show up.