Essays on Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States after the assasination of President John F. Kennedy, was born on August 27, 1908 in central Texas, close to Johnson City, which his family helped settle. He Attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College, and taught...

This essay focuses on two Presidents, Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat and Richard M. Nixon, a Republican. What was their management style in the White House? When you compare these two Presidents, there is one thing that they both have in common, a tragedy that...

‘Lyndon Johnson and therefore the American Dream” by Doris Kearns Goodwin is regarding the lifetime of Lyndon B. Johnson. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author for No Ordinary Time and political commentator who wrote about William Taft and the Golden Age of journalism,...

The Gulf of Tonkin incident took place on August 2 and 4, 1964, it is also known as the USS Maddox incident, an international confrontation of two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on Maddox and Turner Joy which lead to the involvement of...

There were many changes to America in many ways since the end of World War II, including changes to American society since the war. All the programs and laws implemented proved to shape and mold the society in America from one way to another as...

“In the hills of eastern Kentucky… I sat next to a father that had 11 children, that had worked 4 days last month, that had made $4 a day and had had to feed those little hungry mouths largely from surplus commodities. And he told...