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U.S. PRESIDENTS

From 1965-1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson (36th President, 1963-1969)

Vice President- Hubert H. Humphrey
Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas
Died: January 22, 1973
Party: Democratic
Parents: Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., Rebekah Baines
First Lady: Claudia(Lady Bird) Alta Taylor
Children: Lynda, Luci
Nickname: LBJ
Education- Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Famous First: Johnson was the first vice-president to witness the assassination of the president whom he succeeded.
He was the first president to be sworn in by a woman.

Achievements:

At 46, Johnson became the Senate Majority Leader in 1955.
During his administration, more civil rights legislation was passed than under any president in US history.
In his 1964 State of the Union address, Johnson declared a “war on Poverty.”
His Great Society established Medicare and Medicaid
He passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Johnson established the Head Start and Job Corps programs.
His Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy tests used to keep African Americans from registering to vote.
Immigration quota laws were changed for the first time since the 1920s.

Richard Milhous Nixon (37th President 1969-1974)

Vice President- Spiro T. Agnew, Gerald R. Ford
Born: January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California’
Died : April 22, 1994
Party: Republican
Parents: Francois Anthony Nixon, Hannah Milhous
First Lady: Thelma Patricia (Pat) Catherine Ryan
Children- Patricia an d Julie
Nickname- Tricky Dick
Education; Duke University School of Law (ranked third in his class)
Famous first: Nixon was the first president to resign from office He was the first president to visit China.

Achievements:

Nixon worked as a lawyer until 1946 when he won election to Congress
During his first year as president, The US won the space race when Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.
Nixon proposed to end the Vietnam War with Vietnamization (replacing American troops with South Vietnamese soldiers). During the process, Nixon ordered an increase in the bombing of North Vietnam. In fact, more bomb tonnage was dropped on North Vietnam in this short period than on Germany, Italy, and Japan combined during all of WWII
On june 8, 1969, president Nixon announced that 25,000 US soldiers would leave Vietnam by the end of August and 35,000 more by Sept. 16.