So he somehow managed to talk his way into a meeting with President Johnson.
He ran President Johnson's War on Poverty and was U.S. ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970.
If President Obama wants to sketch a set of legislative goals, he might look to President Johnson.
During his 1964 campaign against President Johnson, Goldwater called on his party to stand up for conservative principles.
Bombing halts, "truces" designed to encourage the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table were invoked by President Johnson.
Likewise, the NRA backed the 1968 Gun Control Law passed by President Johnson after the assassinations of the Rev.
He could not know that by August 6, 1965, the Voting Rights Act would be signed into law by President Johnson.
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And I want to close with some words that President Johnson used to end his letter to Prime Minister Kenyatta in 1963.
To paraphrase former US president Johnson, Beijing can be inside the tent peeing out, or it can be outside the tent peeing in.
The true successor to Dr King is a white President who will mobilise America, as President Johnson promised and tried to do, for radical reform.
In Washington, President Johnson was torn between embarrassment over the failure of democracy in its birthplace and the need to maintain relations with a strategic ally.
In 1967 Shorenstein was selected by President Johnson as an adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Bangkok, Thailand.
Within days of her reelection, President Johnson-Sirleaf formed a task force of her most trusted and competent ministers, including Minister of Finance, Amara Konneh, and Minister of Energy, Patrick Sendolo.
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"We did agree to accept them due to the fact that they have become basically homeless and need to find a place of refuge and freedom, " said President Johnson Toribiong.
That August, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
President Johnson-Sirleaf has demonstrated Liberia is a serious partner.
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President Johnson used the room in 1968 to tell Americans he would not seek re-election and President Nixon gave several speeches regarding the Watergate scandal, including his decision to resign from the presidency in the wake of Watergate in 1974.
For the first time, the country adopted a thoroughgoing centralization of administration, nominally culminating in President Johnson as head of the executive branch, but in fact handing vast and hard-to-account for power to myriad experts running myriad programs in the new agencies.
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When Nasser closed the Straits in 1967, President Johnson decided, in light of the heavy U.S. commitment in Vietnam, that the United States could not fulfill its 1957 assurances which had been made to induce Israel to withdraw from the Sinai after the Suez war.
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When Lincoln was killed, President Johnson focused on putting the Union back together, but not on building a more perfect union for all Americans, and unlike Lincoln and the Republicans, he was willing to preserve the union by leaving some Americans behind, sacrificing the rights and interests of the former slaves.
That's what we've always done, whether it was Teddy Roosevelt busting the trusts, or FDR seeking to end elderly poverty, whether it was President Truman sending the GIs to college and into the middle class, or President Johnson ensuring health care for all Americans in their golden years and who were poor.
Other calls have come from Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of former President Lyndon Johnson, and from actor Charlton Heston, who has announced that he too suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
The White House chose Independence for symbolic reasons -- President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965 as a tribute to Truman, the first president to propose national health insurance.
As President, Johnson launched one battle and escalated another: against poverty and North Vietnam.
King had also lost the ear of his most important ally, President Lyndon Johnson.
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Yet, when then US president Lyndon Johnson declared victory, the American people didn't believe him.
But once McCarthy broke with President Lyndon Johnson on the war, in 1966, he never turned back.
And Aug. 27 is also the 100th anniversary of the birthday of the late President Lyndon Johnson.
At 1:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia at the White House.
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