Washington D.C. children participate in the 1967 Easter Egg Roll hosted by President and Lady Bird Johnson. 03/27/1967
From the LBJ Library, Image #C4852-5a
“No laughing matter”
In 1964, the Department of Labor, in an effort to protect American jobs, instituted restrictions to make it harder for foreign musicians to enter the country. The press reported that these new requirements would prevent the Beatles from performing in the U.S. Hundreds of distraught teenagers deluged President Johnson and Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz with letters and petitions like this one.
Letter from Janelle Blackwell, 04/03/1964
“I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke to the nation about the situation in Vietnam and concluded with his decision not to seek re-election.
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On January 23, 1964, this act was approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson, renaming the planned National Cultural Center to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a “living memorial” to the slain president.
Act of January 23, 1964, Public Law 88-260, 78 STAT 4, “providing for renaming of the National Cultural Center the John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts, authorizing an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes.”, 01/23/1964
Inauguration Day 1969
Incoming President Richard M. Nixon and outgoing President Lyndon Johnson meet in the White House on Nixon’s inauguration day, 1/20/1969
Born on January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a key leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. President Lyndon B. Johnson issued this proclamation for a national day of mourning after King was assasinated on April 4, 1968. This year we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. with a Federal Holiday on January 16th.
“The Great Society asks not how much, but how good; not only how to create wealth but how to use it; not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed.”
-Lyndon B. Johnson. January 4, 1965.
On this date in 1965, President Johnson delivered his second annual State of the Union address to Congress. LBJ described his goals for the nation as a “Great Society.”
The Great Society program laid out a domestic agenda for Congress that would come to include: aid to education, protection of civil rights (including the right to vote), reduction of poverty, urban renewal, Medicare, conservation, beautification, promotion of the arts, and consumer protection.
State of the Union Address: Toward the Great Society
In this picture, LBJ gives the 1964 State of the Union address in the Capitol Building, Washington D.C. ID 3-6-WH6.
We are blogging the life and legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson at the LBJ Time Machine Tumblr. Join us on a 13-month ride, starting with the birth of LBJ in 1908 and continuing right up to the current day. We’ll follow him through his early years in Texas, to Congress and the presidency, then back to Texas.
Along the way we’ll hear the voice of LBJ, watch Lady Bird’s home movies, review plans for the LBJ Library, and see Museum exhibits. The ride through time will end at the grand reopening of the LBJ Library and Museum on December 22, 2012.
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On November 22, 1963, during a planned two-day, five-city tour of Texas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas. This statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson was written aboard Air Force One during the flight back to the nation’s capital, just hours after the assassination, and after the the oath of office was administered to Johnson. The President delivered the statement upon landing at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, DC.
Listen to President Johnson’s remarks
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There is something of Christopher Columbus in every American…We no longer brave the sea in frail wooded ships. We no longer face the hostility of superstitious men convinced the world is flat. Yet not all our frontiers are conquered. The American adventure is not over.
Photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson Circa Six Years Old, ca. 1915
Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, was born August 27, 1908, at a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River in Stonewall, Texas.
LBJ with long hair. By request.
August 19, 1972 at the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall, Texas.
From the Johnson Presidential Library Photo Archive.
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Senate roll call tally sheet, 08/07/1964
Shown here is the Senate roll call tally sheet for the “Tonkin Gulf Resolution” on August 7, 1964, which gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced that two days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions. The joint resolution “to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia” passed on August 7, with only two Senators dissenting, and became the subject of great political controversy in the course of the undeclared war that followed.
No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting…shall be imposed or applied…to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
Commemorating the Founding of the U.S. Coast Guard
The one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the United States Coast Guard on August 4, 1965, was commemorated in this Proclamation by President Lyndon B. Johnson. A precursor to the Coast Guard, the Revenue Cutter Service was created on August 4, 1790, and it was later merged with the Life-Saving Service to form the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915.
