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- In January 1964, he declared war on poverty. in his first state of the Union address, Johnson declared an "unconditional war" on poverty in the United States , announcing that "our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty
- Johnson nearly was killed in World War 2. Johnson entered the Navel Reserves while still a congressman, and on his only bombing run in the South Pacific, he boarded a plane called the Walbash Cannonball for his mission. A last-second trip off the plane to use a bathroom saved Johnson's life.

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On this day, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in Nationally televised ceremony at the White House. In the Landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African American civil rights movement, as non-violent demonstrations won thousands of supporters to the cause. Landmarks in the struggle included the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, sparked by the refusal of Alabama resident Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a city bus to a white woman and the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at a rally thousands in Washington D.C in 1963. In addition, the bill laid important groundwork for a number of other pieces of legislation-including the Voting Right Act of 1965, which set strict rules for protecting the rights of African Americans to vote , that have since been used to enforce equal rights for women as well as all minorities.

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Democratic Party

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Hubert Humphrey

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"The stakes are too high for you to stay home"

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November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969

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Johnson´s political career began in the early 1937, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. He reported for active duty in 1941 and serves in the U.S Navy as a lieutenant commander until all members of congress in the military were recalled to Washington in the summer of 1942. In 1960, John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Presidential nominee, invites Johnson to be his Vice-presidential running mate. On November 22,1963, Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Johnson was sworn in a president later that day aboard Air Force One

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In 1931, Johnson moved to Washington, D.C to serve as congressional secretary. On, November 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta ¨ lady bird¨ Taylor, a fellow Texan with whom he later has two daughters, Lynda and Luci. Lady Bird Johnson, a soft spoken but well-educated woman from an affluent family, became a critical part of Johnsonś political success.

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He was the first of five children of Sam Ealy Johnson Jr., a farmer, businessman and state legislator,and his wife, Rebekah Baines Johnson Young Johnson graduated from Southwest State Teachers College
( Texas State University) in 1930. To pay for his education, he taught for disadvantaged Mexican-American Students in Texas.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, near the central Texas community of Johnson City

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36th President of the United States