Statistics for The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Johnson succeeded this assassinated president	John F. Kennedy	97%
Habit he dropped in 1955 and took up again immediately after leaving the White House	Smoking	94%
Home state	Texas	90%
He is one of four people to have been President, Vice President, Representative and Majority Leader of the...?	Senate	80%
Thurgood Marshall was the first black person to be nominated to this institution	Supreme Court	79%
Middle name	Baines	77%
Military operation launched by the Vietcong on Vietnamese New Year, 1968	{Tet} Offensive	76%
Metaphor for a series of social and economic programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare	War on {Poverty}	74%
His wife	Lady Bird	73%
Event that escalated the United States' involvement in Vietnam	Gulf of {Tonkin} Incident	66%
Place where he was sworn in for his first presidency	Air Force One	64%
Watts, a neighborhood of this city, was one site among several mid-60s urban riots	Los Angeles	64%
Republican candidate he defeated in a landslide in the 1964 presidential elections	Barry Goldwater	58%
Legislation that outlawed racial and gender discrimination	Civil Rights Act of 1964	57%
Racist Alabama governor who lost the 1964 primaries and later split from the Democrats	George Wallace	57%
Name for socially and racially progressive policies	Great {Society}	54%
Vice President during his second term	Hubert Humphrey	52%
Profession before entering politics	Teacher	34%
1956 segregationist declaration he did not sign, unlike many fellow congressmen	{Southern} Manifesto	19%
Johnson's way of winning over opponents in aggressive one-on-one talks	The Johnson {Treatment}	19%