Lyndon+B.+Johnson

" For myself, I ask only in the words of an ancient leader (Solomon): “Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people." || Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, to sit on the highest court in the land...Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam -- Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs, rivaling those of FDR's New Deal, through Congress with astounding success. An unpopular and costly war, however, eroded his political base and left him an exile within his own White House... Died: January 22, 1973. || US Presidents Home Page References: Bible Quote: Christian Heritage Center //(The Crown College of the Bible)// [] []
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