President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson the 36th president of our united states started life as a poor man in the small town of Johnson City, Texas. After High school he moved to California to work on a highway crew. He decided that there was an easier way to go through life so he moved back to Texas to attend Southwest Texas State to get his degree in education. His first job was after college was as a teacher at a Mexican-American school in Cotulla, Texas. Seeing the great poverty and hardships of his students impacted his legislative actions in his future political career. Johnson’s domestic policies focused mainly on the education of our citizens and the problem of constant poverty and unequal treatment among minorities Lyndon B. Johnson political career began as a representative of the 10th district of Texas, Johnson soon took his political career to Washington when he was elected to the United States senate. After only two years in the senate he became the minority leader of the Democratic Party. When the democrats took control of the senate he in turn became the majority leader of the Senate. In the 1960 presidential race he was placed on the ballet of John F. Kennedy as vice president, JKF proceeded to win the election. He served as vice president until after Kennedy’s assignation when he became the 36th president of the United States. Johnson’s greatest deal of legislation is classified under the great society bills. These bills dealt primarily with aid to education, Medicare, urban renewal, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote. With Johnson’s fight against poverty he began the economic betterment of our country by helping the poor and uneducated to better themselves. Johnson helped to pass revolutionary bills such as food stamps which enabled the poor to eat descent meals why trying to work themselves up the ladder to the middle class. But, educational reform
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