good evening my fellow Americans
he wanted the United States to be a
Great Society welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re taking a look at the
life and accomplishments of Lyndon
Johnson tonight I want to speak to you
of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia
no other question so preoccupied our
people Lyndon Baines Johnson was born
August 27 1908
in Stonewall Texas the oldest of five
siblings he became interested in
politics while at the southwest Texas
State Teachers College there he also
developed his persuasion skills during
campus debates and forged a relationship
with the mexican-american community by
teaching impoverished students you never
forget what poverty and hatred can do
when you see its scars on the hopeful
face of a young child
following his 1930 graduation his
father’s connections helped LBJ become
Democratic congressman Richard M CLE
Berg’s
legislative secretary where he built
relationships with lawmakers and
politicians like President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt over the next year’s
Johnson attended Georgetown University
Law Center and married Claudia Alta
Taylor with whom he had two daughters in
1937 Lady Bird Johnson as she was known
provided financial and political support
during her husband’s successful campaign
for Congress Johnson dedicated his time
in the house to improving his district
though he spent a few months as a Navy
lieutenant commander during World War
two following the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1948 Johnson won a spot
in the Texas State Senate after a
contentious campaign and advanced
rapidly to become House Minority Leader
in 1953 Johnson was so skilled at
pushing his agenda and gathering
information on his fellow senators that
his methods were dubbed the treatment in
1955 Johnson 60 cigarettes per day
I caught up with him when he almost died
from a massive heart attack causing him
to quit smoking
LBJ continued following his political
ambitions in 1960 by canvassing for the
Democratic presidential candidacy though
he lost to John F Kennedy he did become
his running mate
later that year Johnson helped win over
the south when the JFK LBJ ticket
defeated Dwight Eisenhower in the
election Johnson felt underused as vice
president and disliked by Kennedy’s
entourage rumors circulated that JFK
planned to drop LBJ from the 1964 ticket
but things changed on November 22nd 1963
at 12:30 p.m. come the rifle shots that
bring death to President Kennedy
following Kennedy’s assassination in
Dallas Johnson was sworn in as the 36th
President of the United States aboard
Air Force One I will do my best
that is all I can do during his first
year
Johnson established the Warren
Commission to examine JFK’s murder and
honored him by pushing through 1964
Civil Rights Act Americans of every race
in color have worked to build a nation
of widening opportunities this was one
of the first major achievements of
Johnson’s Great Society agenda which was
designed to combat poverty racial
discrimination and more on November 3rd
1964 LBJ and running mate Hubert
Humphrey won the election by a landslide
against Republican Barry Goldwater
Johnson’s Great Society programs
continued with 1965 s Voting Rights Act
it is wrong
deadly wrong to deny any of your fellow
Americans the right to vote in this
country
he focused much of his mandate on
solving poverty through education by
giving public education access to
federal funding for example he also
increased health benefits through
Medicare and Medicaid expanded American
immigration policies and tackled culture
the environment and media which
eventually led to the establishment of
Public Broadcasting
however when poor neighborhoods saw
little improvement African American
communities began rioting violently
growing media criticism of the country’s
military participation in the Vietnam
War exacerbated those problems following
1964 s notorious Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution LBJ began sending American
forces to Vietnam without Senate
approval to stop the spread of communism
while publicly Johnson’s administration
claimed impending victory the u.s. was
shocked by 1968 surprised Ted offensive
attacks by the communists LBJ’s
credibility and popularity plummeted
further as spending protests and deaths
increased the final straw for Johnson
was the subsequent rift within the
Democratic Party he decided not to run
for the presidency in 1968 and
eventually ended all bombing of North
Vietnam to set peace talks in motion I
do not believe that I should devote an
hour or a day of my time to any personal
partisan causes or to any duties other
than the awesome duties of this office
the country was shattered further by the
assassinations of Martin Luther King jr.
and Robert F Kennedy in 1968 in a
political realignment the public chose
Republican Richard Nixon as president
later that
after leaving office Johnson retired to
his Texas ranch and worked on his
memoirs he also resumed his smoking
habit which caused his health to
deteriorate further until he died On
January 22nd 1973 following his third
heart attack the 36th president the
United States died this afternoon in a
ambulance plane on the way to San
Antonio where he was taken after being
stricken at his ranch the LBJ Ranch in
Johnson City Texas while he was
criticized for the Vietnam War his use
of wiretapping and his ruthless Johnson
treatment Lyndon Johnson is remembered
positively for his domestic policies and
as a hero in the fight for civil rights
its purpose is not to punish its purpose
is not to divide but to end divisions
divisions which have lasted all too long
he wanted the United States to be a
Great Society welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re taking a look at the
life and accomplishments of Lyndon
Johnson tonight I want to speak to you
of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia
no other question so preoccupied our
people Lyndon Baines Johnson was born
August 27 1908
in Stonewall Texas the oldest of five
siblings he became interested in
politics while at the southwest Texas
State Teachers College there he also
developed his persuasion skills during
campus debates and forged a relationship
with the mexican-american community by
teaching impoverished students you never
forget what poverty and hatred can do
when you see its scars on the hopeful
face of a young child
following his 1930 graduation his
father’s connections helped LBJ become
Democratic congressman Richard M CLE
Berg’s
legislative secretary where he built
relationships with lawmakers and
politicians like President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt over the next year’s
Johnson attended Georgetown University
Law Center and married Claudia Alta
Taylor with whom he had two daughters in
1937 Lady Bird Johnson as she was known
provided financial and political support
during her husband’s successful campaign
for Congress Johnson dedicated his time
in the house to improving his district
though he spent a few months as a Navy
lieutenant commander during World War
two following the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1948 Johnson won a spot
in the Texas State Senate after a
contentious campaign and advanced
rapidly to become House Minority Leader
in 1953 Johnson was so skilled at
pushing his agenda and gathering
information on his fellow senators that
his methods were dubbed the treatment in
1955 Johnson 60 cigarettes per day
I caught up with him when he almost died
from a massive heart attack causing him
to quit smoking
LBJ continued following his political
ambitions in 1960 by canvassing for the
Democratic presidential candidacy though
he lost to John F Kennedy he did become
his running mate
later that year Johnson helped win over
the south when the JFK LBJ ticket
defeated Dwight Eisenhower in the
election Johnson felt underused as vice
president and disliked by Kennedy’s
entourage rumors circulated that JFK
planned to drop LBJ from the 1964 ticket
but things changed on November 22nd 1963
at 12:30 p.m. come the rifle shots that
bring death to President Kennedy
following Kennedy’s assassination in
Dallas Johnson was sworn in as the 36th
President of the United States aboard
Air Force One I will do my best
that is all I can do during his first
year
Johnson established the Warren
Commission to examine JFK’s murder and
honored him by pushing through 1964
Civil Rights Act Americans of every race
in color have worked to build a nation
of widening opportunities this was one
of the first major achievements of
Johnson’s Great Society agenda which was
designed to combat poverty racial
discrimination and more on November 3rd
1964 LBJ and running mate Hubert
Humphrey won the election by a landslide
against Republican Barry Goldwater
Johnson’s Great Society programs
continued with 1965 s Voting Rights Act
it is wrong
deadly wrong to deny any of your fellow
Americans the right to vote in this
country
he focused much of his mandate on
solving poverty through education by
giving public education access to
federal funding for example he also
increased health benefits through
Medicare and Medicaid expanded American
immigration policies and tackled culture
the environment and media which
eventually led to the establishment of
Public Broadcasting
however when poor neighborhoods saw
little improvement African American
communities began rioting violently
growing media criticism of the country’s
military participation in the Vietnam
War exacerbated those problems following
1964 s notorious Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution LBJ began sending American
forces to Vietnam without Senate
approval to stop the spread of communism
while publicly Johnson’s administration
claimed impending victory the u.s. was
shocked by 1968 surprised Ted offensive
attacks by the communists LBJ’s
credibility and popularity plummeted
further as spending protests and deaths
increased the final straw for Johnson
was the subsequent rift within the
Democratic Party he decided not to run
for the presidency in 1968 and
eventually ended all bombing of North
Vietnam to set peace talks in motion I
do not believe that I should devote an
hour or a day of my time to any personal
partisan causes or to any duties other
than the awesome duties of this office
the country was shattered further by the
assassinations of Martin Luther King jr.
and Robert F Kennedy in 1968 in a
political realignment the public chose
Republican Richard Nixon as president
later that
after leaving office Johnson retired to
his Texas ranch and worked on his
memoirs he also resumed his smoking
habit which caused his health to
deteriorate further until he died On
January 22nd 1973 following his third
heart attack the 36th president the
United States died this afternoon in a
ambulance plane on the way to San
Antonio where he was taken after being
stricken at his ranch the LBJ Ranch in
Johnson City Texas while he was
criticized for the Vietnam War his use
of wiretapping and his ruthless Johnson
treatment Lyndon Johnson is remembered
positively for his domestic policies and
as a hero in the fight for civil rights
its purpose is not to punish its purpose
is not to divide but to end divisions
divisions which have lasted all too long
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