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1963-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Vice President elect Hubert H. Humphrey. Lyndon B. Johnson's Inaugural Address.
Johnson pushed through much of the Kennedy's New Frontier program of laws designed to ease poverty and extend civil rights for blacks. Later in his own social reform program, the Great Society, he cut taxes, enforced black voting rights, and set up the Medicare plan giving medical insurance to people over 65. He also committed U.S. troops to ground combat in South Vietnam (1965) and approved the bombing of North Vietnam. About his private life: Would anyone have listened to any young woman if Lyndon B. Johnson would have had a casual affair with her?
36 Lyndon B. Johnson Died: January 22, 1973. Party: Democratic. Age when inaugurated: 55. Term: 1963-1969. Johnson passed sweeping antipoverty and civil rights programs. However, he also involved the U.S. in the unpopular Vietnam War. Antiwar protests caused him to drop a reelection bid.
Lyndon
B. Johnson
Addresss to the Nation
March 31, 1968
Famous Fact: Johnson was sworn into office on an airplane after the Kennedy assassination.(Source: scholasticnetwork.com)
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