Who Is this?Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Gillespie County, Texas, on August 27, 1908 and he was the first of five children of Rebekah and Sam Johnson. He would say that his family was poor, but that was only one of his exaggerations he would tell; his family was actually middle-class, and quite frankly, his mother would spoil him. His father was little more distant, but he managed to instill Johnson with a passion for politics. Johnson's father,Sam, was active in Texas politics and served six terms in the state legislature. Sam Johnson was from the southern populist wing of the Democratic Party; he was an honest politician who never made much money but who did his best to serve his constituency. He occasionally took Lyndon along with him during campaign trips.
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The Great Society
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Kennedy's Letter to Johbson |
Johnson envisioned a great society that would unify the United States and be an inspiration for the rest of the world. This Great Society was a domestic program based on the expansion of the welfare program, similar to Roosevelt's New Deal. He had an interest in bettering the lives of the poor; his antipoverty programs included a new food stamp program which gave poor people a better chance at obtaining food. Johnson also focused on the elderly who made up most of the poor; Congress responded with the Medicare which was funded through Social Security taxes, it was a universal medical insurance. Another program, Medicaid, which would provide federal grants to poor people under 65 years old.
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The questions of Kennedy about the Space Program in the U.S :
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