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.
And Aug. 27 is also the 100th anniversary of the birthday of the late President Lyndon Johnson.
Within weeks, Kennedy jumped into the race and President Lyndon Johnson bowed out.
In 1967, when Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the straits, president Lyndon Johnson begged off, forcing Israel to stand alone.
President Lyndon Johnson moved the speech from its traditional midday time slot to the evening to attract a larger television audience.
Four years earlier, as the Vietnam War raged on under the leadership of President Lyndon Johnson, Democrats held their convention in Chicago.
Enacted by President Lyndon Johnson, the combined legislation asserted federal authority to regulate the firearms industry and private owners using interstate commerce powers.
Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement when she said King needed a partner like then-President Lyndon Johnson to make his dream a reality.
President Lyndon Johnson noted in his memoirs simply his regret that the Soviet action forced him to postpone initiation of strategic arms control negotiations with Moscow.
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In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson was determined to maintain spending on social programs, even as the escalating war in Vietnam began to strain the federal budget.
's Sonora Dodd to honor her widowed father, but the third Sunday in June didn't become official until President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation in 1966.
The last time an incumbent president skipped his party's convention was in 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson stayed at his Texas ranch while Democrats met in Chicago, Illinois.
In the next breath, he praised former Democratic President Lyndon Johnson as someone who "got things done because he was willing to work with people" across the aisle.
In the fall of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson broke with this tradition by nominating Robert McNamara, his Secretary of Defense and the chief strategist of the war in Vietnam.
Two decades later, as President of France, General de Gaulle would telephone his American counterpart, President Lyndon Johnson to tell him that France had decided to withdraw from NATO.
Debates disappeared from the general election scene for 16 years, as President Lyndon Johnson refused to debate in 1964, and Nixon avoided facing his opponents in 1968 and 1972.
In the civil rights debate, President Lyndon Johnson depended on the Senate minority leader, Republican Everett Dirksen of Illinois, to deliver the votes needed to end a filibuster in 1964.
President Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in New York helped Kennedy win the election, but not before the challenger ran a campaign that made its appeal to voters and proved worthy.
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.
In that speech, President Lyndon Johnson issued a challenge.
In April of 1968, just one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, as our nation mourned in grief and shuddered in anger, President Lyndon Johnson signed landmark civil rights legislation.
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At the same time, the level of care it offers, considered generous in 1965 when Medicare debuted as a centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, now seems bare-bones compared with what private sector health plans offer.
The publication, which the Nixon administration tried to stop, revealed details about the way the war had been escalated which seemed to contradict what the public had been told by the previous administration of President Lyndon Johnson.
Valenti, too, always knew who his bosses were and, following a practice he began when he was an aide to President Lyndon Johnson, complimented them on their abilities while also doing his best to serve their needs and interests.
In 1968, for instance, a Minnesota senator, Eugene McCarthy, engaged the incumbent President, Lyndon Johnson.
Reagan's state funeral will be the first such ceremony since the service for President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1973.
He also talked about his next role where he is due to play US President Lyndon B Johnson in a film called The Butler.
Two pivotal events followed: President Truman, a Democrat, integrated the armed forces in 1948, and another Democratic president, Lyndon Johnson, aided by a number of Republican lawmakers, enacted the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
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