History 12
  • Paris Peace Treaty
    • Untitled
  • Russia 1917-1945
  • USA 20's and 30's
    • Fireside Chats
    • John Maynard Keynes
    • Alphabet Agencies
    • The New Deal
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
    • Herbert Hoover and Hooverville
    • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock Market Crash
    • Buying on the Margin
    • The Dawes Plan 1924, The Young Plan 1929
    • The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
    • Prohibition
    • Isolationism
    • Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
    • A Consumer Society
  • Europe in the 20's and 30's
    • The Weimar Republic
    • The Maginot Line
    • The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
    • Mussolini and the Risa of Fascism
    • Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
    • Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
    • Early Acts of Appeasement
    • Final Acts of Appeasement
    • Spanish Civil War
    • Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
    • Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
  • World War 2
  • Early Cold War
  • Late Cold War
    • The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
    • Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
    • Vietnamization
    • The Leonid Brezhnev Era
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
    • Czechoslovakia, 1968
    • Richard Nixon and Detente
    • Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) Land II 1972, 1974
    • The Helsinki Accords, 1975
    • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Star Wars and Strategic Defence Initiative
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Perestoika and Glasnost
    • The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
    • Coup in Russia, 1991
  • China 1919-1991
  • The Middle East 1919-1991
    • Blog 1
    • Blog 2
    • Blog 3
    • Blog 4
  • Blog (Human Civil and Women Rights)
  • James' Weebly
  • Themes and Thesis'

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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."'
- Lyndon B. Johnson 

Lyndon B. Johnson

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•A wealthy Texan rancher
•Was Kennedy’s Vice President and became President after his assassination
•Was reelected for second term
•Entire time in office embroiled in the Vietnam war (was discredited and didn’t even run against Nixon)
•Championed the civil rights bill
•Formed the Peace Corps called VISTA which was part of his “war on poverty” and also part of his “Great Society”
•Wanted to create more equality for blacks

Summary: Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963). He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. 


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"Vietscar" by David Levine, New York Review of Books
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