Why is Lyndon Johnson important?
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LBJ basically brought the civil rights move movement into being, created NASA and lead the nation during the most turbulent period in modern history...more over he finished all the work John Kennedy started..
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From most important to least...\n\n1.) America's political apathy\n2.) Illegal immigration\n3.) Raising gas prices / Conversion to ethanol\n4.) Budget defecit / Welfare programs\n5.) Iraq\n6.) Iran / North Korea\n7.) China's push to be a superpower\n8.) World environment
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Lyndon Baines Johnson was the president after John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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If you mean the President, Andrew Johnson never attended school. He began his informal education while serving as an apprentice.  His (future) wife taught him to read and write when he was 17.
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I really do not like to think that any of these vice presidents were a heartbeat away so to speak, but I would have to say in my lifetime there were two Lyndon Johnson who stepped in for Kennedy when he was killed and while I do not agree with his politics Gerald Ford, who took over for Nixon when he resigned in disgrace.
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Lincoln, followed closely by Lyndon Johnson.
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He doesn't mispronounce it.  It is just something people who don't like him say. \nPresident Lyndon Johnson pronounced it the same way.\nCheck out Merriam-Webster online below and click on the pronounciation key, there are three variant ways.\n\nBut, based upon the way you posed your question, I don't think you care much for a real answer.
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Oh my goodness yes!! FDR was the man, he's seriously one of my all-time favorite presidents...maybe my favorite. He made such significant changes when he was in office...things that are still relevant to this day. Because of him we have trust in the banks and he's the reason that the parties "switched" their priorities. FDR was definitely amazing. :)
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Because he's got something important to say, that's why.\nNow, shut up and listen!
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Important good or important bad?  Let's go for one of each:\n\nImportant bad changes were wrought by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the father of the beaurocracy.  He use the excuse of recovery from the great depression to create an alphabet soup of government programs, all funded by taxpayers, which were supposedly combating poverty.  It is true that a lot of unemployed people got jobs with the government, and as a temporary measure it might not have been all that bad.  Such things are alway vulnerable to favoritism and various forms of corruption, of course, but at least people who had been hungry started bringing home a paycheck.  But those programs, and the precedent they set, are mostly still in place, getting larger and more expensive and less effective all the time, and the taxpayers are paying for it all.\n\nTherefore, the president who made the most valuable changes, or at least tried to, or pehaps started to, was Ronald Reagan.  He vowed to disassemble the beaurocracy, reduce taxes, and deregulate industry.  He did his best, but the job was too big for him.  However, he was largely instrumental in the downfall of the Soviet Union, mostly by scaring them into spending so much more than they could afford on their military.  The Soviet Union, as a communist country, was strangled by its beaurocracy.  It was therefore enormously inefficient.  The money it spent on the military, and on the space program once Reagan warned them that space programs had an obvious military purpose, was more than it could afford, and it went belly-up.  Also, you may recall that there were a group of hostages which the Democrats did not have what it took to get released, who were handed over when the kidnappers realized Ronald Reagan was indeed being sworn in as president.  They did not want to deal with him, because he had guts, and gave back the hostages.
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To contain communism.  That is how we got involved in the Korean and Vietmanese wars.  President Truman also got the civil rights movement going after WWII.  Maintaining our status as a superpower and stopping Russia was our primary concerns.
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jfk did not get a lot done on this issue, though he was a proponent of civil rights (some say that led to his assasination) but there was little legislation passed during his era...johnson, his vp did most of that (as unpopular as he was) after jfk's assasination....though there were milestones during kennedy's tenure...go to the wikepedia site, and look up civil rights
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Lyndon B. Johnson was the president in 1966, he was born in 1908.\n1966-1908= 58 yrs. old in 1966\n\nG Dub turned 20 in 1966\n\nDidnt know which u wanted so theres both
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It is so hard to speculate what he would have done. An assassins bullet ended any hope for a Kennedy to be president. However he had the same drive as his brother Jack and had that Kennedy charisma that was well understood at the time. His stint as attorney general earmarked the fact that he was tough on organized crime. His public service record was certainly wonderful. I think he would have advanced the civil rights movement. Johnson's war on poverty would have not lost steam and many people would have advanced in life. I would hope that we would have public health care by now if he had been president then. What is wrong with the richest peoples on earth providing a means for a hand up to people that have been pushed down for so long.
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LBJ was overly obsessed with his own popularity. He idolized F.D. Roosevelt and LBJ wanted to be just as popular as FDR had been. I read about this in an article which said that, one day, LBJ was walking down a corridor in the White House with reporters and, as the group passed a bust of FDR, Lyndon stopped, reached out his hand to caress the cheek of FDR, murmurred, "Such strong features," and then continued walking down the hall.\n\nBut, of course, he wasn't as popular. Sure, he won a landslide in 1964, but that could be attributed as much to weaknesses of Barry Goldwater as to the "strengths" of LBJ. One irony of his life is that, before he got into politics, he was a high school teacher who taught public speaking, and yet he himself was a lousy speaker -- so stiff, poorly delivered, and insincere. And even though he had some major accomplishments on the domestic policy front, acomplishments which should have won him major plaudits from his own party, instead he was hated by his own party for his Vietnam policy.\n\nI can't imagine that he'll ever rate very highly among the Presidents.\n\nI rarely talk about G.W. Bush.
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After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, JFK did not want to make another mistake with the communists and ordered financial and military assistance to support the South Vietnamese army (ARVN). Military assistance was limited to equipment and advisors until Johnson took over and ordered combat troops to take over fighting from the ARVN forces after the Tonikan incidents.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President; in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for the passage of key civil rights legislation and Medicare, a major "War on Poverty", as well as the acceleration of the war in Vietnam. He was elected in a landslide in 1964 but his reelection bid in 1968 collapsed as his party fell apart, and he announced that he would not seek re-election.