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Lyndon B. Johnson became ... as the Democrat whip and became the Democrat minority leader in 1953, per the source. During the presidential election of 1960, Kennedy asked Johnson to be his running ...
In March 1968, President Lyndon B ... Office, Johnson said he would not “devote an hour or a day of my time” to any duties beyond his current presidency or accept the Democratic Party ...
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon ... Johnson had polished his political talents to a high gloss. He was Democratic whip in two ...
For Lyndon Johnson ... long since disaffected with L.B.J., who went so far as to declare that it would be in the “national interest” for the Johnson Democratic Party to “be ousted by ...
The first Democrat in Congress to go public urging President Biden to end his reelection campaign this month cited a potent historical precedent — the decision by President Lyndon B. Johnson to ...
"Accordingly, I shall not seek, and will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president." President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, Jan. 21, 1965. Bettmann Archive ...
Arriving at the Lyndon B ... Johnson was Senate majority leader. Sponsor Message Those bills had been watered down to accommodate segregationist Southern senators in Johnson’s own Democratic Party.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Portland ... A friend whose father was chairman of the local Democratic Party invited Shettleworth to watch Johnson’s speech in City Hall Plaza ...
Biden can finish the noble work that was denied to Lyndon B. Johnson — healing the country and lifting his party to victory, through an admirable act of self-awareness and courage. The impulse ...