Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice p
Johnson in 1967
Johnson being sworn in on Air Force One
Johnson at a July 1965 Cabinet meeting
Appointed by Johnson in 1967, Thurgood Marshall (left) became the first African American on the Supreme Court
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 196
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…Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January…
Official portrait, 1964
Johnson at age 7, wearing his trademark cowboy hat, at his childhood farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas, in 1915
Johnson as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve in March 1942
Johnson's United States Senate portrait in the 1950s