"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow man otherwise was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first year in office, he was one of the most extensive passage state programs in the nation's history. Maintaining collective security, he carried on the rapidly growing struggle for the Communist attack border in Viet Nam.
Johnson was on 27 August 1908, born in central Texas, near Johnson City, which had helped to arrange his family. He felt the pinch of rural poverty as he grew up working, through Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University-San Marcos is known), he learned compassion for the poverty of others when he taught students of Mexican descent.
In 1937 he successfully fought effectively for the house to a New Deal platform, supported by his wife, the former Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor, whom he married in 1934th
During the Second World War he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander and won a Silver Star in the South Pacific. After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948. In 1953 he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, won, and the following year, when Democrats in control, Majority Leader. With rare skill he obtained passage of a series of important measures Eisenhower.
In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, like John F. Kennedy 's running mate, has been named vice president. On 22 November 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, was sworn in as President Johnson.
First he got a firm, which measures President Kennedy had called at the time of his death - a new civil rights bill and a tax cut. Next he urged the nation "a great community in a place where the meaning of human life corresponds to the wonders to build the work of the people." In 1964 Johnson won the presidency with 61 percent of the vote and had the largest popular margin in American history - more than 15 million votes.
The Great Society program became Johnson on the agenda for the Congress in January 1965: promotion of education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal and beautification, conservation, development of backward regions, a large-scale fight against poverty, combating and preventing crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the vote. Congress to increase or change, quickly found Johnson's recommendations. Millions of older people find assistance through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.
Under Johnson, the country made spectacular discoveries of the space in a program he had advocated since the beginning. When three astronauts successfully circled the moon in December 1968, Johnson congratulated them: "They've taken ... all of us, the whole world into a new era ....'
But two major crises have accelerated since 1965. Despite the start of the new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination programs, unrest unrest and rioting in black ghettos of the nation. President Johnson steadily his influence against segregation and on behalf of public policy, but there was no early solution.
The other crisis arose from Viet Nam. Despite Johnson's efforts to end Communist aggression and achieve a settlement, the continuation of the struggle. Been controversy over the war was to end March 1968, when he limited bombing of North Vietnam to the acute negotiations. At the same time, he shocked the world, to locate a candidate for re-election, he was full of commitment, not hindered by politics to devote himself to the pursuit of peace.
When he came back peace talks under way, he does not have more success they experience, but died suddenly of a heart attack at his ranch in Texas on 22 January 1973.
Johnson was on 27 August 1908, born in central Texas, near Johnson City, which had helped to arrange his family. He felt the pinch of rural poverty as he grew up working, through Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University-San Marcos is known), he learned compassion for the poverty of others when he taught students of Mexican descent.
In 1937 he successfully fought effectively for the house to a New Deal platform, supported by his wife, the former Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor, whom he married in 1934th
During the Second World War he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander and won a Silver Star in the South Pacific. After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948. In 1953 he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, won, and the following year, when Democrats in control, Majority Leader. With rare skill he obtained passage of a series of important measures Eisenhower.
In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, like John F. Kennedy 's running mate, has been named vice president. On 22 November 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, was sworn in as President Johnson.
First he got a firm, which measures President Kennedy had called at the time of his death - a new civil rights bill and a tax cut. Next he urged the nation "a great community in a place where the meaning of human life corresponds to the wonders to build the work of the people." In 1964 Johnson won the presidency with 61 percent of the vote and had the largest popular margin in American history - more than 15 million votes.
The Great Society program became Johnson on the agenda for the Congress in January 1965: promotion of education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal and beautification, conservation, development of backward regions, a large-scale fight against poverty, combating and preventing crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the vote. Congress to increase or change, quickly found Johnson's recommendations. Millions of older people find assistance through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.
Under Johnson, the country made spectacular discoveries of the space in a program he had advocated since the beginning. When three astronauts successfully circled the moon in December 1968, Johnson congratulated them: "They've taken ... all of us, the whole world into a new era ....'
But two major crises have accelerated since 1965. Despite the start of the new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination programs, unrest unrest and rioting in black ghettos of the nation. President Johnson steadily his influence against segregation and on behalf of public policy, but there was no early solution.
The other crisis arose from Viet Nam. Despite Johnson's efforts to end Communist aggression and achieve a settlement, the continuation of the struggle. Been controversy over the war was to end March 1968, when he limited bombing of North Vietnam to the acute negotiations. At the same time, he shocked the world, to locate a candidate for re-election, he was full of commitment, not hindered by politics to devote himself to the pursuit of peace.
When he came back peace talks under way, he does not have more success they experience, but died suddenly of a heart attack at his ranch in Texas on 22 January 1973.
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