Lbj biographies

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Lyndon B. Johnson

By , LBJ felt politically prepared to run for president. However, the Democratic convention nominated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who received votes over LBJ's Kennedy then asked LBJ to be his vice-presidential running mate, a strategic move to garner support in the South. Kennedy and LBJ defeated the Richard Nixon-Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. GOP ticket in one of the closest elections in American history.

As vice president and chairman of the Space Council, LBJ headed up the US space program. Just days after the Soviet Union launched the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, , President Kennedy assigned Vice President Johnson to investigate the US space program's potential. LBJ, working with NASA's famed rocket architect Wernher von Braun, reported that with an "all-out crash program," America could get to the moon by or One month later, on May 25, , Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress to announce the goal of putting an American on the moon by LBJ's prediction was not far off the mark from America's first moon landing on July 20,

In the White House, the Kennedy-Johnson partnership was marked by vastly different personal temperaments and cultural backgrounds. By the fall of , preparation began for the presidential campaig

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"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative programs in the Nation's history. Maintaining collective security, he carried on the rapidly growing struggle to restrain Communist encroachment in Viet Nam.

Johnson was born on August 27, , in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his family had helped settle. He felt the pinch of rural poverty as he grew up, working his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos); he learned compassion for the poverty of others when he taught students of Mexican descent.

In he campaigned successfully for the House of Representatives on a New Deal platform, effectively aided by his wife, the former Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor, whom he had married in

During World War II he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific. After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in In , he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, and the following year, when the Democrats won control, Majority Leader. With rare skill he obtained passage of a number of key