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Johnson, a native of Stonewall, Texas, who went to Southwest Texas State Teachers College with a borrowed $75, was elected president of the universities in 1837, three years after he married Claudia Ala Taylor, known as Lady Bird, and two years after he was appointed by Roosevelt as director of the Youth Administration for Texas.
Johnson's administration was marked by a sweeping bipartisan effort to expand rights, Social Security, aid to education and housing and
He ran for the Senate and was elected in 1941, but was successful when he became majority leader in 1954 when a Democratic Congress was formed.
The Texan's first year in office on an elected basis, 1965, was marked by the arrests and brutality in Selma, Ala., when Negroes sought to register to vote. The trouble brought a backlash from those who Congress enact the voting rights act.
who was married in the White House.
Johnson's years in the White House also saw the weddings of both of his daughters—Luch, who married her brother, and Lynna married in a church, and Lynna
Johnson suffered his first heart attack in 1855, while still a senator. He had another serious stroke in 1863 and was inaugurated. He underwent
the ears of his beagles, Him and Her. Dog lovers were outfitted and protested loudly; Johnson contended the dogs liked it.
When Johnson announced March 31, 1968 that he would not run for office again, he appeared
another serious heart incident April 7, 1972 while visiting Lynda and her husband, Charles Robb, in Charleston Va.
On Oct. 7, 1865, he underwent a gall bladder operation and later amused newsmen by displaying his scar for photographers.
drawn and tired. Some felt he was fed up with civil strife sweeping the nation, and some felt he simply wanted out.
Johnson said his wife was particularly pleased that he decided to shun another presidential race.
Johnson, who presided over the buildup of the Vietnam war, also
set in motion the machinery that led to the Paris peace talks. He was pronounced in March 1988 that he would not seek a second elected term and also said that he had been bombing U.S. borders, U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
The legacy of war, however,
was blamed by many for the
president, Hubert H. Humphrey,
to丢失 to Richard M. Nixon in
1974.
His death came on the day that Nixon dispatched his chief of staff, James Bradshaw, to what were expected to be the conclosing negotiations for a settlement of the war in Iraq. The longest in the nation's history.
Johnson flew from the White House retirement on his ranch where he was president. The ex-president rarely appeared in public his first two years out of office and even frequently permitted interviews.
He broke his silence partially in 1970 and spoke at a series of fund raisers for Democratic candidates in the midterm back into the limelight came in May 1971 when, with the help of President Nixon, he dedicated the new Lyndon B. Johnson gala lasting several days to a large gala lasting several day.
He agreed to tape a series of television interviews with CBS reviewing his years in office. In October, he met the Secretary of State Dean Rusk who had advocated the cessation of bombing in North Vietnam, that he was sorely disappointed at the lack of support that he felt his administration had been undermined by some former staff member of the late President Kennedy during the Iraq war, which he assumed the presidency.
In contrast to the sophistication of the Kennedy administration, Johnson's regime was classed by his predecessor as an "Iron Man." The president's Texas manisera were the target of many threats while its drawing of delivery speechs
still when Johnson was in the swift, many saw him as a man of interest to his goals "The Great Society." He is c-edited with developing the first civil rights act in 80 years with the 1957 measure when he was *C* Congress. And the second through when he was president was the most sweeping ever enacted.
Johnson was the first Southern president since Andrew Johnson was sworn in as president like Andrew Johnson, he took over a presidential assignment.
Johnson's list of accom-
pliments for schools,
society—education,
housing, medicine,
antidiscrimination, wages
and benefits.
Lyndon Johnson, however,
stressed his Western-style heritage. He also found himself particularly at home, and made his Western-style ranch a
Johnson became president while the nation reeled from the shock of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas, Texas. stef.街,浙23,1983.
Then vice president, Johnson rode in the motorcade in a car behind the president when Kennedy suffered his wounds. He was driven by a Secret Service agent in his motorcade to Parkland Hospital where Kennedy died. Shortly thereafter officers surrounded Johnson with the tightest security, fearing in the confusion that they could be a plot under way to assassinate all the nation's leaders.
The swearing-in ceremony for Johnson took place at the Dallas municipal airport aboard Air Force One, the presidential jet, which also bore the body of the dead of a resident back to Washington.
1960. And when Kennedy ask the Texan to be his running mate, Johnson agreed although he believed his powerful power as Senate majority leader for the vice presidency of the vice presidency
Johnson had sought the Democratic nomination for president which Kennedy won in
Neither did he use his talents as a great legislative persuader, arm twister and compromise after he became vice president.
As vice president, he presided over the Seman at several times, as he had used the majority leader's role to dynamically force legislation on the agency.
When Johnson finished high school, he showed no interest in further education or a career. He walked and hitchhiked to a restaurant seven months later returned home and took a job as a lifeguard.
His parents persuaded him to enter Southwest State Teachers Cam Marcos, Tex. After he was graduated, Johnson taught school.
Johnson's most fateful move came in 1833 when he went to Washington, D.C., with Richard Kleberg, D-Tex. He became a protege of Sam Eliot and Thomas Jefferson, the post of House speaker longer than any other man. Among other things, Johnson became Texas Governor and National V-9th Administration.
Johnson ran for the Senate in 1941 and lost by 1,311 votes.
After Navy service in World War II, Johnson returned to Texas to join the game in 1948 and won over Oakes Stephenphon with a late vote report giving him a margin of 87 votes. He disputes alongside older Texas.
The 8-foot-3 Johnson's admitted charm and political acumen earned him a leadership in his first term. When Democrats won the Senate in November, he
The wealth of the Johnson fifties closed closely, guarded secret, hidden from public porate holdings. But by all accounts it amounts to millions in land, radio and television and office space, home west of Johnson City is a showplace. It was visited by the Rev. Jesse Johnson and while Johnson was president.
Leaders Look Back
Back home at the ranch after leaving the White House, Johnson spent hours preparing his extensive biography. But his chief interest appeared to be the work of George M. Clooney and the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.
He had expressed the hope that he could lecture at the school upon its completion. It is tailored for preparing students for public life.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon said Monday night that the death of Lyndon B. Johnson should make al- Americans "realize more than they have before" to those who have gone before.
Former President Johnson, wore black v-necked, V-necked American" and had an unshakeable conviction in the case of the loss of the American experience.
in leading the nation's mourning for his predecessor in the White House. Nixon said of him, "I know you have greater dreams for America than Lyndon Johnson. Even as we mourn his death, we are grateful for his life, which did so much to those dreams into realities."
Nixon seemed to strike the thought of many of the political leaders, associates and even his own advisors. Johnson's death when he said he thought America would come to understand the greatness of the American people.
EVIDENT  IN MANY
history would honor a man who
renounced a chance at re-election
because of national disillusion-
ment.
An example of this theme came from Russell Long, one of Johnson's Senate associates and he has given his five-year administration.
"Lyndon Johnson," the Louisiana Democrat said, "did not live to see vindicated his decision to commit American
troops against aggression, but history may yet prove that this was the wiser, although the most intelligent resistance in acquiring experience of his life."
His responsibility in the Vietnam War will be better understood, especially by those who differed with him, as an intense loyalty toward his lights to the prince of self-determination."
Justice Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Johnson as the first black to the Suprem Court, said, "I will work with President Johnson will go down in history as the one president who did all in his power to promote true humanitarianism — the principle of the equality of men."
FROM OTHERS who split with him over Vietnam, came praise for the former President's domestic policies, and it was in response that Johnson suggested Johnson would be recalled with pride and gratitude.
cause of education. He was a man of compassion for the elderly, and of concern for the young.
Johnson, Sen. Edward Kennedy said, earned himself a place in history "alongside Abraham a cause of his efforts for blacks."
"He was a schoolteacher who dedicated his public life to the
Another public figure who was closely involved in the civil rights struggle, but from the opposite side, to Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace.
He said from his home in New York, where Johnson's career was one of long service and hard work. He serve his nation well. It's a sad case, but I know it.
Former Texas Gov. John Connally, a protege who split with his mentor in the 1972 election, said he was heartbroken Nixon said he was heartbroken
"The country has lost a great leader and president, but we have also lost a beloved friend," said in Kingston, Jamaica.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, the man Johnson swamped in 1964 in one of the greatest political triumphs of the century, beat the 1964 White House opponent, "The Country has lost a great political leader, a dedicated American and I have lost a friend, the President I will forever hold close."
In spite of the statements of sorrow from political foes, former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas said he could not avoid feeling "deep and bitter resentment" in the hostile critics of Johnson
Kansans Describe LBJ
TOPPEKA (AP)-Gov. Robert Docking said Monday that Lyndon Johnson was dedicated to the war, and committed to a better world.
"While history requires more time to judge any President," Decking said, "Lyndon Johnson was one of the most talented and capable legislative leaders in the history of our country.
"When the history books look so bad, I wonder how Johnson they will reflect upon man who pursued—and stood over the courses he believed were wrong."
Docking described Johnson as "a friend of mine and the Docking family."
"He became President during one hour of our nation's saddest moment," Dozing said. "He served as President during one of our nation's most troublesome moments."
Afl M. Landon, former Kansas officer who ran for President in 2014, has worked some areas, such as civil rights and Social Security legislation, Johnson deserves considerable credit for his forceful leader-
Landon, who said he never met Johnson, said Johnson's being a southerner probably had a lot to lose and rights legislation bein' passed."
Norbert Dreiling, Kansas democratic chairman, said Johnson opened a door with guard to civil rights legislation.
"It took a Southerner to show usNortherners how to pass the first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction,Drilling said.
"His presidency can be summed up in two words, 'equal opportunity.' Jack Kennedy said you joy Johnson did it best," he said.
Dreiling said he thought people now would begin to go through
"Regrettfully the Vietnam War cast a shadow on a record that I don't think has been truly ap- plicated by his fellow citizens," he said.
"He was responsible for more legislation in the civil rights, voting rights and general area of law to provide for every citizen," Dreiling said.
Johnson's legislation and "see just how much he did."
Former U.S. Sen. Frank Carlson, who now lives in Cordina, said, "President Johnson admired him for his devotion to his family, his concern for those who were less fortunate, his ability to work with his fellow senators in his devotion to his state and nation."
U.S. Lacks Ex-Chief For Fifth Time
"Truly our nation has lost a great citizen and a great leader." Carlson recalled that he and Johnson were elected to the Congress for the first time, beginning with the session in 1937.
NEW YORK (AP) —The death of Lyndon B. Johnson was without a living ex-president for the first time since Calvin Coolidge in 1933, and for the last time in the nation's history.
Earlier in this century, Theodore Roosevelt served the last months of his presence with no living exponents after the June 24, 1808, death of Grover Cleveland.
George Washington's death
Dec. 14, 1799, left his former
vice president, John Adams,
without a living predecessor.
Again, Ulysses S. Grant
finished out his second term without a living ex-president after the July 31, 1875, death of Andrew Johnson.
The most recent occasion was Coolidge's death Jan. 5, 1933. President Herbert Hoover remained in office less than a year after being succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 3, 1933.
"The presidency is more than one man, but an opportunity to confront the President—are more than any one man should have to bear,"
Carlson said that he had spent some time with Johnson, as well as seeing him to see the former President getting around so well at that
"We never had any difficul'ties," said Carlson. "Texas and Kansas have many mutual problems."
Johnson's death within a month of President Harry S. Truman was unusual because of the proximity, but not unique. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson did the same day, July 4, 1826.
He recalled a conversation with the President in a plane to San Francisco at the time the 20th anniversary of the United Nations was observed.
"We were visiting on the way out," Carlson said, "and he said, 'I'm sorry,' but this war has got me worried. We have some real problems with it."
"Westmoreland had asked for more troops and planes.
"Pretty soon he's going to say,
you're commender in chief and
why don't you come over here
and run the war."
Johnson and John F. Kennedy at a Democratic Party breakfast in 1960, upper left, when they both were nominees; Johnson is sworn in as President in the cabin of the presidential plane Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas after Kennedy was assassinated; When Johnson, right, lifted a pet beagle in 1964 by the ears his action stirred a nationwide controversy over whether it was cruel to the dog; Johnson signs and enacts the Medicare Bill in 1965, below, at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., as former President Truman watches.
Photos Courtesy of The Topeka Capital-Journal and The Associated Press