The Sixties in America Almanac | The Triumph and Collapse of the Johnson Administration

• Walking in Kennedy's footsteps: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• War on poverty
• The 1964 election
• Warren Court
• Creating a great society
• The politics of Vietnam
• Acting Presidential: LBJ's Image Problem
• Coming apart
• 1968: A defining year
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Few presidents have entered office under more difficult circumstances than Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973; served 1963–69). Johnson had been elected as vice president along with President John F. Kennedy in 1960, and he had served for three...