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.
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.
Later when President Lyndon Johnson insisted on deficit spending for both his Great Society entitlements and the Vietnam War, Martin caved.
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.
After the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to move quickly on comprehensive gun control.
He intimated that Vice President Lyndon Johnson was a business partner.
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.
One is that the problem is only with southerners, who abandoned the Democrats in the 1960s because President Lyndon Johnson signed laws demanding equal rights for blacks.
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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.
It is a toned-down version of the "treatment" that President Lyndon Johnson successfully applied on lawmakers, with Bush attempting to cajole his opponents in instances where LBJ would have intimidated them.
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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.
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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