Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas, August 27, 1908 - died in Stonewall, Texas, January 22, 1973 at age 64 years) who called U.S. President LBJ was the 36th (1963-1969). After passing through a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson served as Vice President of the United States-37. In 1963, he replaced John F. Kennedy was killed.


Lyndon Johnson also became Chairman of the Democratic minority in the Senate. As president, he was responsible for the ratification of some laws that smells of liberals, including the Civil Rights Movement in America 1955-1968, Medicare, the program "War on Poverty". That's all there in the Great Society program. Respectively, Lyndon Baines Johnson increased U.S. troop presence in the Vietnam War, from 16.000 in 1963 to 550.000 in early 1968, when more than 1000 U.S. soldiers killed per month. LBJ was re-elected in 1964, but his nomination in 1968 failed as a result of turmoil in the body of his party, and he announced that he will not go vote.


Johnson is widely known for personality, self-gripping power and major politicians. The long-term legacy is hard to measure, because of the advances made in the field of civil rights and the program "Great Society", confounded by the issue of the Vietnam War. Due to replace President Kennedy, the first term he was not accompanied by the vice president. Then after being elected in running a second term, he was accompanied by Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Husband of Lady Bird Johnson is dead in LBJ ranch in Stonewall, Texas, on January 22, 1973.