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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 ...
Suspension of the provision of section 5751(b) of Title 10, United States Code, which relates to officers in the line of the Navy of the grade of commander July 8, 1965 106 11233 Adlai E. Stevenson: July 14, 1965 107 11234 Establishing the President's Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia July 16, 1965 108 11235
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.
President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona in the presidential election, and Johnson's Democratic Party added to their majorities in both chambers of Congress. This was the first presidential election after the ratification of the 23rd Amendment , which granted electoral votes to Washington, D.C. [ 2 ]
Lyndon B. Johnson: Democratic: Ambassador-at-large: 1967–1968 Ambassador to West Germany: 1968–1969 John W. Gardner: Republican: Secretary of Health and Human Services: 1965–1968 Jack Vaughn: Republican: Director of the Peace Corps: 1966–1969 Edward Brooke: Republican: Member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders ...
Electoral history of Lyndon B. Johnson, who served as the 36th president of the United States (1963–1969), the 37th vice president (1961–1963); and as a United States senator (1949–1961) and United States representative (1937–1949) from Texas.
February 22 – President Johnson sends a message to Congress outlining the issues in urban communities and reflects on the actions of the Johnson administration and Congress in correcting these problems, recommending appropriations of 2.18 billion for the antipoverty program for the fiscal year of 1969 and states that his other proposals to ...
The Johnson campaign broke two American election records previously held by Franklin Roosevelt: the most Electoral College votes won by a major-party candidate running for the White House for the first time (with 486 to the 472 won by Roosevelt in 1932); and the largest share of the popular vote under the current Democratic/Republican ...