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Lyndon B. Johnson
 Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27 of 1908 in Texas, close to Johnson City. In his early childhood, Lyndon B. Johnson had an education by attending Southwest Texas State Teachers college where he graduated in 1930 with a teachers degree. Shortly after, he attended Georgetown Law school in 1934. Lyndon was the oldest in his family and he got married in 1934 to Claudia Alta Taylor and they had two daughters; Lynda Bird and Luci Baines. In his earlier years of marriage, his career was a teacher and a public official. In his teaching career, he taught at a grade school for middle school children. In the 1940's he and his wife developed a profitable business, working on a radio station. Eight years later, 1948, he tried running for the senate, where he lost to a very conservative opponent, who accused him of fraud. He then finally took office in 1949. From there, his political life started. Before becoming president of the United States, Lyndon was the Senator Democratic Leader in 1953, and eventually became vice president for President John F. Kennedy. He was vice president for John F. Kennedy for three years up until 1963 when JFK (John F. Kennedy) was assassinated. Since JFK was assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States, where he remained president until 1969. In his presidency, Lyndon accomplished many things. In 1964, Congress responded to Johnson, by passing the Medicare program, which provided health services to elderly people, approving aid to elementary and secondary education, supplementing the War on Poverty, and creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Lyndon also made an impact on the fact that he was deeply involved with the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front kept winning, even as Johnson poured more tons of money, firepower, and men into the war effort. He had a lot of faith in the troops and for the war, but it was decided that the war was almost unwinnable! Johnson had good effort but the fact that the United States was getting crushed by the Vietnamese his popularity increased. Johnson has made many impacts on the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson remained president until 1969. After stepping down from the presidency in January 1969, Johnson returned to his ranch in Texas. There he and his aides prepared his memoirs, on perspectives of his presidency, from 1963 to 1969. He also supervised the construction of the Johnson presidential library in Austin. Johnson died on January 22, 1973, which was five days before the conclusion of the treaty by which the United States withdrew from Vietnam.

sites: http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/lbjohnson AND http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/lbj.htm