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Lyndon Baines Johnson and His Role in Government

Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27, 1908 in central Texas. As he grew up, Johnson experienced plenty of rural poverty. Johnson gained the friendship of the influential Sam Rayburn, at whose behest President Franklin D. Roosevelt made him director in Texas of the National Youth Administration in 1935. He later learned the compassion for the poverty of others when he taught students of the Mexican ethnicity. In 1937, Johnson won election to a congressional seat, and he was consistently re-elected through 1946. Johnson was elected U.S. Senator from Texas after winning the Democratic primary by 87 votes in 1948. Johnson persuaded the Armed Services Committee to set up the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, of which he became chairman in 1950. Rising rapidly in the Senate hierarchy, Johnson became the Democratic whip and then the floor leader. He suffered a serious heart attack in 1955 but recovered to continue his senatorial command. Lyndon B. Johnson played a major role in American Government. ““A Great Society” for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson.”
In 1960 Johnson, as John F. Kennedy’s running mate, was elected as Vice President. Elected with Kennedy, he happily supported John F. Kennedy’s programs, serving as an American emissary to nations throughout the world and as chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council and of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities. He later became president on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated. The first thing he did was obtain a new civil rights bill and a tax cut (the measures President Kennedy had been urging at the time of his death). Next, he urged the US ““to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man’s life matches the marvels of man’s labor.” ” Having a 61 percent vote and having the widest popular margin in American History, Johnson won Presidency in 1964. “In May, 1964, Johnson called for a nationwide war against poverty and outlined a vast program of economic and social welfare legislation designed to create what he termed the Great Society.” Johnson wanted the best for Americans with the Great Society program and the Social Security Act in 1965. Despite the unrest and rioting in black ghettos, the beginning of new antipoverty and anti discrimination programs, Lyndon B. Johnson steadily kept his influence against segregation on behalf of law and order.
Other issues arose from the Viet Nam. Although Johnson exerted efforts to end communist aggression and achieve a settlement, fighting continued. Johnson pushed harder to achieve a victorious outcome in the Vietnam War. He began a bombing campaign called “rolling thunder.” In order to protect the air base inside Vietnam from the attacks that could take place, Johnson sent Marines into the Danang to guard Air Force bases there. This decision began the gradual process of sending more and more U. S Troop to Vietnam. By 1966 over half a million American troops were operating in Vietnam. When Johnson limited the bombing of North Viet Nam in order to start negotiations, controversy of the war began to settle down. Johnson “startled the world by withdrawing as a candidate for re-election so that he might devote his full efforts, unimpeded by purifies, to the quest for peace. Lyndon B. Johnson left the war and the White House in the hands of his Vice President Hubert Humphrey. However, Humphrey lost the election of 1968 against Richard Nixon. The Vietnam War was now in the hands of Nixon.
Johnson wanted a Great Society for all American people. He did many things to accomplish this goal. Such accomplishments, was when the 89th Congress produced more major legislative action than any other since the New Deal. A bill providing free medical care to the aged under Social Security was also enacted, as was Medicaid. Johnson’s desire in having federal aid to education at all levels was greatly expanded and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided new safeguards for African-American voters. As a result of Johnson’s growing up in poverty, more money went to antipoverty programs and the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development were added to the Cabinet.