Lyndon's Assassination

Lyndon was born in Texas on august 27, 1908 his family had settled prior to the Civil War. He was born in a nearby town called Johnson City. His father was a rancher and part time politician, but Lyndon did not inherit the family’s ranching talent. Which caused Lyndon to run into finical difficulty losing the family ranch at an early teenage year. Lyndon’s family was some of the earliest settlers in Texas before they all had been cattlemen, cotton farmers and soldiers for the confederacy. Lyndon was the first of five children. His mother was in the reserve while his father was a talker and a dreamer, a man cut out for more than farming. He was 27 when he won the election for the Texas legislative he served 5 terms before Lyndon switched careers …show more content…
In an address before a joint session of congress on November 27th Johnson pledge support for president Kennedys legislative agenda which includes civil rights act and education legislation. In 1964 Lyndon wrote a speech at the University of Michigan on May 22nd Johnson spoke of a Great Society he said the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It also demands an end to poverty and racial injustice to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning. It seems like that speech set the tone for the fall campaign. As a president Lyndon had a lot of great things go on during his one term presidency. Like the great society. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. This also consisted of making new major spending programs that addressed education,medical care, urban problems and transportation were launched during this period in time. The program and its initiatives were subsequently promoted by him and fellow democrats in Congress in the 1960s. next The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. During this time Lyndon wanted to end the war on poverty Lyndon felt that this was not right and that this should not take place now at this time that’s what he said in his speech that he gave. The project was to end poverty was designed to help end poverty by providing preschool children from low income familys with a program that would meet emotional, social, health,neutritial and psychological needs. Head start was then transferred to the office of child development in the department of health and human services by the Nixon