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The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency

Guess these facts about LBJ and his presidency.
Other presidential quizzes: Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Last updated: August 17, 2022
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First submittedNovember 23, 2020
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Home state
Texas
Middle name
Baines
His wife
Lady Bird
Profession before entering politics
Teacher
Habit he dropped in 1955 and took up again immediately after leaving the White House
Smoking
1956 segregationist declaration he did not sign, unlike many fellow congressmen
Southern Manifesto
Johnson succeeded this assassinated president
John F. Kennedy
Place where he was sworn in for his first presidency
Air Force One
Vice President during his second term
Hubert Humphrey
Republican candidate he defeated in a landslide in the 1964 presidential elections
Barry Goldwater
Legislation that outlawed racial and gender discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Name for socially and racially progressive policies
Great Society
Metaphor for a series of social and economic programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare
War on Poverty
Watts, a neighborhood of this city, was one site among several mid-60s urban riots
Los Angeles
Event that escalated the United States' involvement in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Military operation launched by the Vietcong on Vietnamese New Year, 1968
Tet Offensive
Thurgood Marshall was the first black person to be nominated to this institution
Supreme Court
Racist Alabama governor who lost the 1964 primaries and later split from the Democrats
George Wallace
Johnson's way of winning over opponents in aggressive one-on-one talks
The Johnson Treatment
He is one of four people to have been President, Vice President, Representative and Majority Leader of the...?
Senate
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Level 78
Nov 23, 2020
I was surprised to find out that this hadn't been done before. Quite a lot going on during this presidency.
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Level 70
Aug 17, 2022
Nice quiz!
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Level 61
Aug 17, 2022
Typo: There are two Ls in "Thurgood Marshall". Also, "SCOTUS" should be a type-in for this question. Otherwise, good quiz.
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Level 78
Aug 17, 2022
Fixed, thank you.
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Level 67
Aug 17, 2022
Good stuff. Was hoping for a question about his conducting official business from the toilet, but I guess you can't have everything in life.