The 36th president of the United States was the first president to take the oath of office in an airplane. This president is known as Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ was born on August 27, 1908 near Stonewall, Texas in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River. LBJ’s father, Sam, was a successful lawyer while his mother, Rebekah, was a house wife. As a child Johnson wanted to stand out from the rest and that’s exactly what he did. Politics played an important role of his growing up. His father was active in politics. Sam never lost an election running for legislature six times and winning every time. You will soon discover after reading this that Johnson’s presidency was filled with many ups and downs. That is why I’m going to tell you about the rise and fall of power of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Lyndon B. Johnson accomplished many things. His most important era in his presidentency (1963-1968) was his progress of Civil Rights for blacks. One of Johnson’s most prized bills was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In this bill was the nondiscrimination of blacks in public accommodations. The next bill LBJ attained was the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This bill provided elaborate and more eff

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“Johnson did more for the cause of black civil rights than any previous president”, remarks Steven F. Lawson. Through LBJ’s early decision to commit himself to the cause of racial equality resulted in the passage of 3 landmark laws: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Civil Rights Act of 1968. LBJ had spent his final months remembering the struggles he went through to achieve civil rights. He was still aware that there was much to be done with the civil rights law after he left office. LBJ stated that he thought the bills that were passed had very little or no effect on the blacks that were located in the ghettos or in the rural poverty areas.

As Johnson ordered bombing raids and sent small numbers of combat troops to Vietnam in August of 1964, he made the most fateful decision of his presidentency in July 1965. This was known as one of his most fateful decisions because he authorized sending 175,000-200,000 troops to Vietnam and promised to send more if needed. The American people were outraged by this increase. Throughout June and July of 1965, the question of Americanizing the war was at the center of all foreign discussion. With this as a possible action, LBJ had clearly decided to Americanize the war by changing the context of commitment. McNamara urged LBJ to ask the congress to permit calling up 235,000 reservists to active service and to provide a supplemental appropriation to cover the increased costs of the war (Presidents and their Decisions, pg.161). Logevall insists that the decision to escalate was primarily Johnson’s and was mostly motivated by a need to secure his personal credibility withdrawal from Vietnam because it would have been a personal humiliation and a threat to Johnson’s sense of his own manhood (Presidents and their decisions, pg.175). LBJ would sometimes say in private that he couldn’t with draw from Vietnam because it would lead to his impeachment, but he was too smart as a politician to believe such a thing (Presidents and their decisions, pg. 184).

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