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- Before Lyndon Johnson and the Appalachian Regional Commission brought new roads to southeastern Kentucky, the primary road from Jackson to Ohio was U.S. Route 23.† (source)
- It was part of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was modeled after the Depression era's Civilian Conservation Corps.† (source)
- President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Bill on July 2, 1964, and signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965.† (source)
- I guess I don't need to tell you about what his office was like, except that it was mostly like the room outside, but one wall had pictures of Mr. Ballard throwing horseshoes with a whole lot of people I didn't know and a couple I did: Mayor John Lindsay and —I'm not lying—President Lyndon B. Johnson, which he saw me looking at.† (source)
- The spirit of Lyndon B. Johnson will contact CBS executives to arrange an interview on live TV in order to defend itself against charges made in recent books.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson was elected president and the civil rights law was passed.† (source)
- She and her husband visited President Lyndon Johnson at the White House.† (source)
- Richard M. Nixon smiles as Angel places his cap on Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's head.† (source)
- Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, Lyndon Johnson in 1908.† (source)
- President Lyndon Johnson was a rich source of salty Texas expressions.† (source)
- We spend the next twenty minutes discussing the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr., Castro, Lyndon B. Johnson, and government goons.† (source)
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- She didn't talk much, and when she did, it was usually a bitter tirade against Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon.† (source)
- …war, when he ran for the Senate, when he stood up against powerful interests in Massachusetts to fight for the St. Lawrence Seaway, when he fought for a labor reform act in 1959, when he entered the West Virginia primary in 1960, when he debated Lyndon Johnson at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles with no advance notice, when he took the blame completely on himself for the failure at the Bay of Pigs, when he fought the steel companies, when he stood up at Berlin in 1961 and then…† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson is a persnickety traveler.† (source)
- Behind Kennedy stand Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Harry Truman.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson took full advantage of this practice.† (source)
- It is left to Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy to finish the civil rights agenda of June 22.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson pretends not to notice—even though he's a man who notices everything.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson is speaking as if nothing odd is happening.† (source)
- What Lyndon Johnson wants, above all else, is a return to power.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson has lost all political power there.† (source)
- Behind the president is the new vice president, Lyndon Johnson.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson does not tiptoe when it comes to foreign relations.† (source)
- Meanwhile, Lyndon Johnson and Air Force One are stuck on the ground because of this legal wrangling.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson knows precisely what his predecessors meant.† (source)
- Meanwhile, Lyndon Johnson drifts farther and farther from the center of political power.† (source)
- In fact, much to the rage of Bobby Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson rambles on for another fifteen minutes.† (source)
- Yet Lyndon Johnson insists on being sworn in before Air Force One leaves the ground.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson keeps his mouth shut as often as possible when the president presides over a meeting.† (source)
- The more Lyndon Johnson realizes this, the sicker and more depressed he will become.† (source)
- Yet he is still obsessed by his rivalry with Lyndon Johnson.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson's long-winded Cabinet Room speech does not please Bobby Kennedy.† (source)
- I, Lyndon Baines Johnson, solemnly swear ….† (source)
- Lyndon Baines Johnson stands bathed in a spotlight.† (source)
- Do you, Lyndon Baines Johnson, solemnly swear ….† (source)
- The radio reported that Lyndon Johnson was being dangled upside down from a towline on a helicopter, swinging in the breeze over the Primate Lab, right here in Madison, in the outright nude, after being kidnapped by parties unknown.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson inherited no small amount of unfinished business from the Kennedy administration, most notably the Vietnam War.† (source)
- As the election of 1960 drew nearer, it was Bobby who fought hardest against Lyndon Johnson as the choice for vice president.† (source)
- And while Lyndon Johnson may have finished his speech, Bobby's move let everyone know who held the real power in the room.† (source)
- The man who took most advantage of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for the presidency in 1968 was Bobby Kennedy.† (source)
- He calls the White House and has all the locks on JFK's file cabinets changed so that Lyndon Johnson cannot go through them.† (source)
- For Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, this is the ideal opportunity to show the gathering just who is boss.† (source)
- Vice President Lyndon Johnson is under constant watch the instant his rented limousine arrives at Parkland Hospital.† (source)
- But when Kennedy picks up the phone to call for help on the morning of April 17, he does not call Lyndon Johnson.† (source)
- Which means he must work extra hard to discredit his main rival, Lyndon Johnson, before LBJ does the same to him.† (source)
- Bobby Kennedy rushes to his brother's defense when Lyndon Johnson complains that he's been kept out of the loop.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, await the president on the tarmac, as they have on even, leg of the Texas trip.† (source)
- Special Agent Emory Roberts sees Hill's gesture and immediately radios to the agents protecting Lyndon Johnson.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson is well-known for grabbing shoulders and slapping backs, but Kennedy keeps a physical distance between himself and other men.† (source)
- The bond between Jack and Bobby Kennedy became tighter than ever during the Cuban missile crisis, even as Lyndon Johnson once again stumbled.† (source)
- This will put control of White House business into the hands of Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy, whose feuding has reached an all-time high.† (source)
- Bobby does such a poor job of hiding his loathing that friends once presented him with a Lyndon Johnson voodoo doll, complete with stickpins.† (source)
- And while the occasion may officially be the anniversary of the city's founding, it also marks the day when Lyndon Johnson takes a public stand in favor of civil rights.† (source)
- And on a much more personal level, he must negotiate the animus between Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who despise each other.† (source)
- In yet another confirmation that Lyndon Johnson has no place in John Kennedy's future plans, the vice president has been neither invited to that meeting nor even told it will take place.† (source)
- In May 1961, JFK tasks Vice President Lyndon Johnson with a fact-finding trip to Vietnam, sending him farther away from the Oval Office than ever before.† (source)
- With five years to go before the 1968 election, an article by Gore Vidal in Esquire magazine's March issue picks him to win the Democratic nomination over Lyndon Johnson.† (source)
- Other than John Kennedy, only two men are allowed to enter the Oval Office through the Rose Garden door: Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy.† (source)
- On March 12 in Dallas, just one day after Lyndon Johnson's speech in St. Augustine, Oswald decides to buy a second gun to go along with the pistol he keeps hidden in his home.† (source)
- The time is 1:16 P.M. At 1:26 P.M. the Secret Service whisks Lyndon Johnson to Air Force One, where he immediately climbs the steps up to the back door of the plane.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson is speaking from his bully pulpit in the chair with the headrest, while Bobby has now twice called the fifty-year-old Martin to his side.† (source)
- Shortly after 1:00 P.M., John F. Kennedy's appointments secretary marches into the small white cubicle in the Minor Medicine section of the hospital and stands before Lyndon Johnson.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson is holding court.† (source)
- If Lyndon Johnson is the vice president, it will one day be written, then Bobby Kennedy is soon to become the assistant president—but only after the Bay of Pigs bonds the brothers and transforms the way JFK does business in the White House.† (source)
- There are eleven other people in attendance, including Lyndon Johnson, so this visit is not a summit meeting between the president of the United States and the most powerful man in the civil rights movement.† (source)
- Lyndon Johnson returned the favor by issuing an executive order precluding Hoover from compulsory retirement, thus allowing the director to remain in charge of the FBI until his death in 1972 at the age of seventy-seven.† (source)
- On March 4, just one week before Lyndon Johnson's St. Augustine speech, Attorney General Robert Kennedy responds to the Esquire story by telling the press, "I have no plans to run at this time"—which the media know to be code for "I'm running."† (source)
- With one downturned thumb, Clint Hill has confirmed that Lyndon Baines Johnson is now the acting president of the United States.† (source)
- Even before O'Donnell opens his mouth, LBJ knows that it is official: Lyndon Baines Johnson is now the thirty-sixth president of the United States.† (source)
- Upon leaving Washington, Lyndon Baines Johnson returned to his Texas ranch, where he died of a heart attack at the age of sixty-four on January 22, 1973.† (source)
- Despite the fact that most Americans are at work or school, and not home watching daytime television, more than seventy-five million people are aware of the shooting by 1:00 P.M. Lyndon Baines Johnson gets the bad news from Kenny O'Donnell.† (source)
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