"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a ... President Johnson was essential to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and even the Public ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union ... the elderly and the victims of prejudice. They include Medicare and the major civil rights measures, staples of today ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...