Lyndon B. Johnson: Era Of Social Reform

When Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded the presidency after John F. Kennedy's assassination he spoke of his vision of a Great Society in America. This Great Society included "an end to poverty and racial injustice," and also was intended to turn America into a place where kids can enhance their mind, broaden their talents, and people could restore their connection with the environment. In order to reach his goal, LBJ enacted numerous proposals involving taxes, civil rights, poverty, and much more. For the most part Johnson did an excellent job on delivering his promises, but international affairs threatened the Great Society and although LBJ won the presidency in a landslide victory in 1964, by 1966 he and the Supreme Court began to face

Anonymous: "[Johnson] had miscalculated: Even the richest and most powerful nation in the world could not do it all" (qtd. in Turbulent Years: The 60s 36). Lyndon Baines Johnson is a president torn to pieces by war. He glows in the passage of bills benefiting American society. He is someone who has suffered through an entire generation of rebellious teens. What impact did LBJ's foreign policies concerning Vietnam War have on American society?

Johnson was not as liked as a president. He had somewhat of a personality complex. He always wished to be viewed as powerful. He was a tall Texan, and his professed arrogance was pushed on all who contacted him. For example, he had a powered chair lift installed in Air-Force-One so that he could raise himself inches above the people he was talking with. Johnson had always been a strong legislator, and he brought these talents to the white house. He pushed for social issues. He was successful in passing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, followed by the Voting Rights Act shortly later. In November of 64, Americans elected Johnson in a landslide. All of America except for the Deep South seemed to like what he had to say about social issues.

When Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President for John F. Kennedy in 1960, he never could have imagined that one day he would be the President, due to Kennedy’s assassination. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, making Lyndon B Johnson the 36th president of America. Johnson had a vision to rebuild a “Great Society”; the Great Society declared “war on poverty.” The Great Society had successes as well as failures. Some of the successes were that the Great Society promoted equality, improved poverty, equality, education, the environment, cities, and the lives of many, while the failure of the Great Society was the U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. President Johnson’s presidency was a success despite his failures

Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th President of the United States from the Democratic Party. He was a firm supporter of peace and equal rights of all citizens, and throughout his presidency he used his popularity to pass legislations protecting voting rights, the environment, fighting crime, preventing poverty, as well as improving education for all citizens no matter what race. His long-term objective as president was to “usher in a new way of life” (National 1) called the “Great Society”. The overall idea was to urge citizens to treat others equally no matter what race.

Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson went on to change the United States of America by signing the civil rights bill. The civil rights bill demands equality and freedom regardless of race, color, religion or nationality. Lyndon B Johnson made a speech before signing the civil right bill where he states “ This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our States, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country.” Johnson wants to get past the negative aspects of our country and move into the right direction. Johnson didn’t favor a group of people nor did he ridicule people for being themselves, Johnson’s intentions were to end divisions amongst people and form unison amongst united state citizens. Prosperity in amalgamation rather than individualism leads to success and

Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty also stemmed from his passing of landmark bills to achieve his Great Society. LBJ was a fine president who did innumerable things while in office to help the American people; However, with every man comes flaws. For LBJ, these flaws can be seen more in his personal life than through his policy making as President.

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born in Texas, on August 27, 1908. Lyndon was the oldest born. Politicians ran in LBJ’s family; His father, Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. was a democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives. LBJ struggled in school as a child, but graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College. LBJ started his career in politics as a legislative secretary to the Texas Democratic Congressman. LBJ’s first campaign was in 1937 when he was twenty eight years old. He campaigned with the energy of 10 men; he spoke in every town in his district and made over two hundred speeches. In turn, LBJ was elected one of the youngest members of congress. One could say that LBJ had an obsessive drive to succeed. This is evident throughout his political career.

It was the year 1964, a time for change in America. The country had to deal with the death of President Kennedy. Then came the president who wanted change, and his name was Lyndon B. Johnson. He passed the Civil Rights Act, but earlier when he was in the Senate he had rejected anything to do with the topic. Like the country, Johnson was changing too. He wanted to change unfairness between the races so that America would not grow up to be a split country. He was the kind of person who was positive and thought about the future, and perhaps that's why he passed the Civil Rights Act. Lyndon B. Johnson became president after John F. Kennedy's death. He wanted to change unfairness for the races, and he wanted to stop segregation.

President Lyndon Johnson attempted to do many great things in his presidency, yet not until the past ten years has he truly been talked about, and is done so in comparison to President Barack Obama, who has actually pulled off more great things than Johnson did. Some of these great things Lyndon tried to accomplish are eradicating poverty, supporting the African American right to vote, and participating in the Vietnam War. He accomplished the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which attempted to end racial discrimination in voting, but his attempts to end poverty are done the easy way rather than the better way, and the Vietnam War was a war no one wanted to fight besides the Republicans at that time. Johnson 's administration ignored many other problems in the nation, such as equality in the workplace for women, and police brutality against African Americans, and once a greater problem came by, attempts to fix the previous problem were abandoned by the Johnson administration.

Lyndon Johnson made great strides toward the initiative to build this "Great Society". A lot of the items he proposed at the time are still functioning and serving purpose during today's century. The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act was established in 1965. This would ensure that all cars on the road would not contribute to a major pollution problem. Even though most places still have this enforced in each of our cities, I grew up in Knoxville and we did not have to do this. Which is probably the reason it is considered one of the worst cities because of the smog for Asthma patients. He also enacted the Economic opportunity Act. This was a great program and still has profound impacts on us today. This plan was to enable each working

I Lyndon B. Johnson, commonly known as LBJ, am a man who was a cause of much change and debate in the United States. I was born on August 27, 1908 in the great state of Texas; a state that helped shaped me into who I am. I became involved with politics early on in my life and it seemed to be a natural progression towards presidency. In the year 1960 I started to campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. After this nomination was given to John F. Kennedy I ran for Vice President on the democratic ticket, and was sworn in to be the vice president on January 20, 1960. It was a little over two years later, on the 22nd of November in the year 1963, when the unfortunate assignation of my dear friends and leader John F. Kennedy occurred. It was because of this tragedy that I succeeded John F. Kennedy and became the 36th president of the United States of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson was going to become president after Kennedy and sadly Kennedy got assassinated, which practically opened the doors for Lyndon to become president. Lyndon wanted to gain trust of the his people when he became president and he wanted to be fair to everyone so he “banned discrimination according

Lyndon Baines Johnson assumed the office of the presidency following the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy. President Johnson was most responsible for the growth of the federal government thru his actions which include the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Medicare and Medicaid and finally the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act was passed in the an effort for all Americans to have equal rights. Johnson took power from the states and granted it to the federal government using this act, when it was the states problem and they should have handled the issue. Medicare was put into place to help aid Americans who were 65 years old or older. Medicaid was established to help the poor and also handicapped.

Johnson felt that if Vietnam became communist, then American interests and security would be threatened by a stronger communist network. Politically, Johnson would lose the mid-term elections