Lyndon B. Johnson (R) - 36th President
Background
Born on August 27, 1908 in Stonewall, TX
Married Claudia Alta Taylor
3 sisters 1 brother
teacher
Texas director of the NYA
Brought electricity yo Texas Hill COuntry
WWII became congressional inspector of the war progress in the Pacific
Vice President
Domestic Accomplishments
Signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 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 flew one combat mission
had to come back because of mechanical difficulty but received a Silver Star
Foreign Accomplishments
signed the Immigration Act of 1965, which substantially liberalized US immigration policy towards non-Europeans
Drastically escalated American involvement in VIetnam
Elections
61.1% of the popular vote
44 out of 50 states and District of Columbia
Alaska voted Democrat for the first and only time
486 electoral votes
against Barry M. Goldwater
Approval Rating
highest was 74.2% approval
November 1963 - January 1965
Legacy
Extended the New Deal
Vietnam war made people question if he was right for us
Vietnamese lost homes and lives
US lives were altered
- Civil rights.
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