Lyndon B. Johnson (Two Americas)

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) was the 19th president of the Confederate States of America. He had first served as a Congressman (1937-1949) and Senator (1949-1963) from Texas. A return of the once unbeatable Democratic party promised hope for the social programs began by Truman in years following World War II. The civil rights movement, lead by would reach a climax during these short years as well. At the beginning of Johnson's term, US President John F. Kennedy would die by an assassin's bullet while in Texas to visit Johnson in what was to have been an international conference on civil rights. Near the end of that term, in 1968), Dr. King would also be assassinated. On the international stage, the CS was embroiled in a war against a Communist insurgency in Nicaragua that threatened to envelope all of Central America. By the election of 1968, with the war still raging, the new party challenged, and beat the Democrats.  The 'space race' with the Soviet Union, provided a glue that kept not only the Confederacy, but all of North America together.  In spite of all the political strings he pulled, though, Johnson was not able to watch the moon landing from the White House.  He did, though, enjoy the pleasure of talking to the first astronauts to circumnavigate the moon on Christmas Eve of 1968.

Early life and family
Lyndon Baines Johnson was born near Stonewall, Texas, on August 27, 1908, in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River. His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, Sam Houston Johnson (1914–1978), and sisters Rebekah (1910–1978), Josefa (1912–1961), and Lucia (1916–1997). The nearby small town of Johnson City, Texas was named after Johnson's father's cousin, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from Georgia. The Johnsons were originally of Scots-Irish and English royal ancestry. In school, Johnson was an awkward, talkative youth and was elected president of his 11th-grade class. He graduated from Johnson City High School in 1924 having participated in public speaking, debate, and baseball.

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