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Next, students view and analyze two video clips that explain the events that led to Lyndon Johnson’s inauguration as president. From there, students learn about the first 100 days of Lyndon ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...
The 2025 inauguration will mark quite a different ... (1904), Calvin Coolidge (1921), Harry S Truman (1948), Lyndon B. Johnson (1964) and Gerald Ford (1974) — only Ford did not subsequently ...
Since inauguration ceremonies were moved permanently ... Finally, it was 68 degrees in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 — when Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath aboard Air Force One following Kennedy ...
Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...
Lyndon Johnson hired Geri Whittington as his secretary because she was the most qualified. She was also the first Black woman to hold it and became a symbol of the Civil Rights Era.
President Theodore Roosevelt didn’t use a Bible when he took his oath of office in 1901, and in 1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson used a liturgical book when he was sworn into office aboard Air ...
"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...