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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

Lyndon Baines Johnson introduced the Great Society, a strategic plan of action to propose environmental cleanup, decreasing poverty, and helping to further fund education during his state of the union address in 1965 in a poetic manner. He spoke of it as a destination that the American people would work toward. Johnson’s address gave many Americans hope and faith in a better world after feeling so much pain following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Americans were anxious to move forward as a nation in support of the changed Johnson proposed.

One of the biggest problems in America was the poverty that ran through the country. Over 50 percent of black individuals were in poverty and white people were above 15 percent(doc H). Johnson thought that this was a huge problem and tried to pass laws to get this country-wide problem solved as shown in Doc

Even before Johnson became president, he had visions of a perfect society (Turbulent Years 67). When he did become president, he pushed as many of those ideas through Congress as possible. For instance, several medical aid and civil rights bills went into Congress and were approved. This was the crowning glory of Johnson's presidency.

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

Poverty rates dropped to the lowest it had ever been in the United States. What used to be the poverty rate of 17.3% in 1958 had significantly dropped to 11.1% in 1965 after the initiation of Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on poverty” acts and programs (Boundless). The programs that Johnson had implemented caused the standard of living to rise in the areas of impoverished US citizens. Elderly people as well as low-income families could now afford healthcare. Children were given access to education through the government funding of public schools, which paved the way for more students to be able to move on to higher educations. School funding and volunteer programs were put in place to combat the low literacy rates in underprivileged areas, and training programs were made available to help those who were unemployed gain skills and knowledge that would help them secure jobs. Families with low incomes were now able to afford housing with government funds being allocated to build houses in the low-income areas. Even the goods that were being bought had increased in quality because of acts that raised the standard of production of consumer goods (ushistory.org). Although the Johnson administration had very strong critics of the “war on poverty” their actions generated lasting impacts on the society that is seen

Johnson ran on the campaign of saying he wanted to battle against poverty in the United States and to battle against communism spreading in Vietnam. Once elected Johnson made big moves regarding civil rights and acts to enable reform. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson was similar to Andrew Johnson who both became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and President Lyndon B. Johnson was officially named president on November 22, 1963 after the famous John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Though President Lyndon had big shoes to fill after the beloved JFK was no longer in office he definitely had his own agendas. However, Johnson did not want to try to compete with JFK legacy but he did want to honor the civil rights bill that President Kennedy was working on before he passed away. President Johnson grew up in poverty and understood how to live without our basic necessities. Therefore one of his biggest accomplishments was getting Congress to approve the education and poverty of our

Haynes Johnson’s, Sleepwalking through History: America in the Reagan Years, is a secondary source published in 1991 that is a Revisionist vision of the era of the Reagan Administration. It also criticizes the employment of “Reaganomics”. Johnson was an extremely well-known journalist for the Washington Post. The origin has value because Johnson won a

The 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, has been seen through many perspectives, and those opinions have shaped how we view his role in history. The president was crucial to the outcome of the Vietnam War, and greatly impacted the lives and deaths of thousands of American soldiers. He has sometimes been criticized by politicians, years after his death. Some agree with his opinions and look up to him as one of the greatest figures in the past. Here are two outlooks on his life and career- how Lyndon B. Johnson is portrayed throughout history and how he is written in the novel The Wednesday Wars.

Johnson aspired to be as much as a success as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Historians argue that he not only reached his goal, but also surpassed it. He began to fight for his “A Great Society” project. Johnson wanted no activity against his ultimate goal. He began by installing John F. Kennedy’s program. However, he accomplished things that Kennedy did not even plan in the running for his presidency (Ushistory.org). After installing the programs intended by Kennedy, Johnson continued to create programs for a better America. He began the war on poverty, and signed the bill called the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The program was set to attack the causes of poverty in America. Vocational preparation was added to provide a more qualified and better-paid workforce. Job Corps was the name given to the program to create a better, more problem-free workforce. To bring more educated workers to communities, many education programs were started. Head Start was created to advance education before kindergarten. There were programs to begin a superior version of learning and teaching for children with learning disabilities. The lack of instruction was a leading cause to poverty, thus Johnson chose to attempt to disassemble the problem (Ushistory.org). Attacking surface problems of poverty was his plan to show the country possible improvement of their current economic and social situations. Voting Rights Act decreed there to be no literacy or any other form of test to prevent

Lyndon Johnson, taught at the Mexican American school to 5-7th graders, in Cotulla, Texas. When working there he would look into their eyes and see their struggle. In the photo, the students are dressed, not fancy but not poor. This shows their families had pride and cared about education. The students faced many difficulties like discrimination, food limitations, and a language barrier. The Civil Rights act would have helped these students. “Guaranteed all Americans the right to public facilities…” This act would have helped with discrimination against the students. All of these show how Lyndon Johnson, had sympathy for the students, This document can be used to help answer the mini-q question by noticing his principle side of signing the civil rights act, because he had sympathy for the student “They knew even in their youth the pain of

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum utilizes many different types of form to create a grand monument fitting for a man as “large” as Lyndon B. Johnson himself. Gordon Bunshaft and Max Brooks, the architects behind designing this building, used scale, proportion, space, shape, and color to make the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library the breathtaking memorial that it is today.

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas signed a civil rights bill. He believed that discrimination around the world should be prohibited, or banned. Johnson, as a U.S. senator, felt that he could help protect the civil rights, by signing the bill. Today, many people still are determining if President Johnson signed the bill to help him win the Presidential election, or if he did it because he felt that it was the right thing to do. There are a few documents to help us find out….