Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the US Congress, Johnson became the Vice President under John F. Kennedy (1961–1963) and later ascended to the presidency following Kennedy's assassination.

Further information

See also

• U.S. presidential election, 1960
• U.S. presidential election, 1964
• U.S. presidential election, 1968
• History of the United States (1945–1964)
• History of the United States (1964–1980)
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas

Further reading

• Barrett, David Marshall. Advice and Dissent: An Organizational Analysis of the Evolution of Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam Advisory System, 1965-1968. (University of Notre Dame, 1990)
• Casey, Francis Michael. The Vietnam Policy of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in Response to the Theory of the Protracted Conflict as Applied in the Politics of Indochina: A Case Study of Threat Perception and Assessment in the Crisis Management Process of a Pluralistic Society. (Claremont Graduate School, 1976)
• Cherwitz, Richard Arnold. The Rhetoric of the Gulf of Tonkin: A Study of the Crisis Speaking of President Lyndon B. Johnson. (University of Iowa, 1978)
• Goodnight, Lisa Jo. The Conservative Voice of a Liberal President: An Analysis of Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Rhetoric. (Purdue University, 1993)
• Kearns Goodwin, Doris. Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. (1977)
• Logevall, Fredrik Bengt Johan. Fear to Negotiate: Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1963-1965. (Yale University, 1993)
• Turner, Kathleen Jane. The Effect of Presidential-Press Interaction on Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam War Rhetoric. (Purdue University, 1978)
• Winter-Berger, Robert N. The Washington pay-off: a lobbyist's own story of corruption in government. (Secaucus, New Jersey : L. Stuart 1972)

Johnson career documentary

Johnson is the subject of an extensive multi-volume biography: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro. So far three volumes have appeared:

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:# The Path to Power (1982),

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:# Means of Ascent (1990),

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:# Master of the Senate (2002).

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References and external links

• Lyndon B. Johnson Library
• White House biography
• Handbook of Texas entry
• LBJ's secret White House recordings @ University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs
• Lyndon B. Johnson, article on educatetheusa.com.
• Johnson, Lyndon Baines, article in the New Book of Knowledge.
• Robert A. Caro ' (2002)
• Inaugural Address
• Audio recordings of Johnson's speeches
• Lyndon Johnson Biography
• White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on LBJ, NPR Weekend Edition audio archives
• LBJ's silver star
• Walter Jenkins Scandal