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President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 After the end of Reconstruction, most Southern states enacted laws designed to disenfranchise and marginalize black citizens from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment .
January 4 – President Johnson delivers the 1965 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, launching the Great Society program and saying additional ideas will be sent to Congress within six weeks. [4] January 20 – Johnson is sworn into his full term as President of the United States by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren.
The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973, [371] and the United States Department of Education headquarters was named after Johnson in 2007. [372] The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin was named in his honor, as is the Lyndon B. Johnson National ...
The legislation extends the program for three years and is said by Johnson to call "for a substantial increase in expenditures to meet the tragedy of hunger in America." [ 194 ] October 9 – President Johnson signs H.R. 16175 into law, setting aside "surplus land at the old National Bureau of Standards site for a new international complex."
On March 31, 1968, then-incumbent U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson made a surprise announcement during a televised address to the nation that began around 9 p.m., [1] declaring that he would not seek re-election for another term and was withdrawing from the 1968 United States presidential election.
Johnson defeated Porter in November by a narrower margin than Democrats in Texas usually obtained. [119] Johnson returned to Washington as a senator and was permanently dubbed "Landslide Lyndon." Dismissive of his critics, Johnson happily adopted the nickname, [120] [121] though he came to dislike it in later years. [122]
On the occasion of President Lyndon Johnson’s birthday, the National Constitution Center looks at 10 interesting facts about one of the most colorful and controversial figures in American history.
Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. ... Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) [66] November 22, ...