LBJ-36th 1963-1969
- JFK's Vice president
- Took over as President after JFK was assassinated
- great and helped the poor people
- he was popularly after JFK died.
- 61.1% election.
- Civil Rights helped pass
- he didn't run again
- "I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
- Accomplishments
- Civil Rights
- 1964
- out lawed form of segregation
- passed voting rights act which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time.
- started affirmative act laws
- Immigration act allowed more non-European people to immigrate the US immigration more than doubled
- discrimination
- voting rights act 65-allowed blacks to vote
- housing
- medicare
- great society
- aid education
- attack diseases
- medicare and medcaid
- urban renewal
- beautification, conservation,development or depressed regions
- war on poverty
- control and prevention of crime
- head start
- Gun Society
- Gun control Act 1968 regulates the firearms industry and firearms owner.
- Vietnam
- conflict dominated much of Johnson's presidency
- Believed in Domino Theory
- Gulf of tonkin Resolution 1964 congress gave Johnson power to wage war
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