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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.
Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969 ... but Fortas stepped down from the Supreme Court in 1969. ... Johnson took an additional step ...
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 ...
First Lady Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007) and President Lyndon Johnson (1908 - 1973) in the audience at a Music for Young America concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C ...
June 4 – Johnson's request for the Communists' aid in scaling the Vietnam War down and making peace is responded to with a decline by a North Vietnam spokesman. [135] President Johnson delivers the commencement address at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey during the morning.
Peter Mangan flips through a large folder of newspaper clippings at the Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential library as he prepares to make a donation to the library, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in ...
August 9 – President Johnson accepts a proposal from William Womack Heath to build the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. [13] August 10 – Housing and Urban Development Act; August 11 – Watts riots result in 34 deaths, over 1,000 injuries, and widespread property damage and looting in Los Angeles. [14]
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Labor Department’s webpage still described Johnson’s executive order as a “historic step towards equal employment opportunity” and said it “remains a major ...