By: Ethan Bruce
AP US History
Job Training
 In the early years of Johnsons life, he did not work before
college.
 Johnson attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College
to earn his degree in teaching
 Also, Johnson learned about the lives of the needy while
helping kids of Mexican descent where he taught
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nson
Political Background
 In 1937 Johnson campaigned for the House of
Representatives on a New Deal platform
 After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected
to the Senate in 1948. In 1953, Johnson became the
youngest minority Leader in Senate history, and
the following year, when the Democrats won
control became youngest majority Leader
Political Background Cont.
 Lyndon Johnson was elected Vice President
on November 22, 1963 running with JFK
 On November 22, 1963 Johnson was sworn
into presidency after the current president
JFK was shot dead that day.
Campaign
 As a start to Johnson’s campaign he
used the same deals and measures as
JFK and kept pushing them through
office in his terms earning him much
respect
 The first of these measures was the civil
rights bill and a tax cut which were
effectively put into place
Campaign Quote
 One of Johnson’s famous quotes when he first came into
office was;
 "to build a great society, a place where the meaning of
man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.“
 Johnson wanted the lives of people to live without poverty
and to be fruitful and productive
The Great Society
 The Great Society was Johnson’s agenda and were his goals
during his four years of presidency
 They included; aid to education, attack on disease,
Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation,
development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight
against poverty, control and prevention of crime and
delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote
Medicare Amendment
 One of the big successes of Johnson’s campaign was his
Medicare amendment in 1965 to the Social Security
Act
 The amendment helped elderly people even further
giving them much needed supplies furthering lifespan
To the Great Beyond
 One of the most questioned
enigmas in society during
Johnson’s presidency was whether
or not America would be able to
go to the moon or not
 This was proven to be able when
in December 1968 the first men
orbited the moon
Into a New Era
 Johnson congratulated these three astronauts with
their significant achievement by saying:
 "You've taken ... all of us, all over the world, into a new
era. . . . "
Program after Program
 During his reign as president, Johnson, developed
several different programs to help to stop racial
segregation
 Some of these programs were antipoverty and antidiscrimination programs
Black and White
 It was not what Johnson wanted, Johnson wanted the
world or at least nation to become desegregated and to
join together as one
 The increasing fatalities of this segregation were
worrisome to Johnson but there was no easy way to
solve the growing issue
Crisis
 The biggest crisis to afflict the Johnson era was the
Vietnam war, the people of the US did not support the
war and strongly protested its involvement overseas
 Controversy had started to decrease in the US by the
end of March 1968
Peace in the Jungle?
 By March 1968 Johnson had ordered limited bombing
over Vietnam in hopes of having peace talks to stop
the police action and initiate negotiation
Re-Election
 During the peace talks Johnson decided to withdraw
his name in the ballot for re-election
 Johnson had hopes that he might devote his full
efforts, uninfluenced by politics, to the quest for peace
in the world
Works Cited
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<http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/lyndonbjohnson>.
 Picsearch. Lyndon B. Johnson. N.d. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.
 Johnson Cartoon. 1959. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Web.
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Mar. 2011. <http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2008/09/24/pages/2698/
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 USHistory. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. 1968. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.