Lyndon Johnson

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
2. WhiteHouse.gov Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson
3. Wikipedia: Lyndon B. Johnson
4. The Handbook of Texas Online: Lyndon Baines Johnson
5. Miller Center of Public Affairs: Lyndon Baines Johnson
6. AmericanPresidents.Org: Lyndon B. Johnson
7. Amazon.com: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Lyndon Johnson News and Obituaries

• CNN: Lady Bird Johnson dead at 94 (July 12, 2007)
• The Raw Story: Gates strategy echoes Johnson's Defense Secretary's in Vietnam (2007)
• The New York Times: "Declassified C.I.A. Archives Detail Illegal Activities" (2007)  
• The New Republic: Is Ehud Olmert Lyndon Johnson all over again? (2006)
• The New York Times: "Lyndon Johnson, 36th President is Dead" (1973) 
• Google News: Lyndon Johnson

Lyndon Johnson Background and Profiles

• Miller Center of Public Affairs: "Papers - Lyndon B. Johnson"
• PBS American Experience: Lyndon B. Johnson
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum: "Religion and President Johnson"
• Yale.edu: "Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson"
• Texas Observer: Book Review: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (2002)
• BBC.co.uk: 1963: Johnson takes over as US president

Years in Congress

• Wikipedia: Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Senate.gov: Senate Leaders - Lyndon B. Johnson

Johnson and the Kennedys

• Mahalo's Guide to the JFK Assassination
• Time Magazine: Lyndon Johnson profile (1964)
• Amazon.com Books: Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and the Feud That Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
• Slate Magazine: Was Nixon Robbed? (2000) 
• The New York Times: "The Nation: Johnson-Kennedy Redux; No Way to Treat a Rival" (2001)  
• The American Presidency Project: Remarks of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Airport Rally, Amarillo, TX (1960)
• Wikipedia: United States Presidential Election, 1960

The Great Society

• Wikipedia: Great Society
• NPR: Podcast: Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty (2004)
• CNN: Great Society Speech
• Washington Monthly: What Was Really Great About The Great Society (1999)
• Free Republic: LBJ's Great Society: 40 Years Later
• LewRockwell.com: The Great Society: A Libertarian Critique
• American Rhetoric: Audio: Lyndon Johnson - "Let Us Continue" speech (1963)
• Amazon.com: Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society by John Andrew

Vietnam War

• Editor and Publisher: Bill Moyers, LBJ, Walter Lippmann and the Vietnam/Iraq link (2007)
• USAToday.com: Tapes reveal LBJ's Vietnam conversations (2006)
• CNN: Doubts plagued LBJ on Vietnam early in the war (1997)

Lyndon Johnson Blogs and Articles

• The Left Coaster: Democrats Need An LBJ Now (2007)
• TPMCafe: Hey, Hey, LBJ (2006)
• Wizbang: Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon still dead (2005)
• United States Senate: "Lyndon B. Johnson Master of the Senate"
• CNN: "Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society Speech"
• Google Blog Search: Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Johnson Memorials and Remembrance

• University of Texas at Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
• "Impact & Legacy"
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac
• Johnson Space Center

Lyndon Johnson Photos

• Google Images: Lyndon B. Johnson and LBJ
• After Image Gallery: "The Johnson Treatment: Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore F. Green, 1957"
• The Portal to Texas History: Lyndon Johnson Photos
• President Johnson's Beagles

Lyndon Johnson Audio and Video

• "1964 Presidential Campaign Television Spot"
• "MARCH 31, 1968 - Speech to the Nation With Decision Not to Run for a Second Term as President"
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum Media Archives ON-DEMAND
• "The Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson"
• NPR: "White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on LBJ"

Lyndon Johnson Criticism and Controversy

• Miller Center of Public Affairs: Foreign Affairs
• Wikipedia: Vietnam War
• PBS American Experiencea: Vietnam Online
• Google Video: "Interview with LBJ's mistress on JFK assassination"
• IMDb: JFK  

Lyndon Johnson Timeline

• August 27, 1908: Born at Stonewall, Texas
• August 29, 1930: Graduates from Southwest Texas State Teachers College at San Marcos, Texas (Texas State University-San Marcos)
• November, 1931: Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
• November 17, 1934: Marries Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird Johnson)
• June 21, 1940: Appointed Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve
• November 2, 1948: Elected to the United States Senate
• 1957: Steered through to passage the Civil Rights Act of 1957
• 1958: Guided to passage the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
• November 6, 1960: Elected Vice President of the United States
• November 22, 1963: Became the 36th President of the United States after John F. Kennedy is assassinated
• July 2, 1964: Signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• August 7, 1964: Signs the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• November 3, 1964: Elected President of the United States
• July 28, 1965: Orders an increase in U.S. Military forces in Vietnam
• March 31, 1968: Announces he will not be a candidate for another term in office
• January 22, 1973: Dies at his ranch in Texas

Lyndon Johnson Books

• Amazon.com: Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam by Michael H. Hunt
• Amazon.com The Presidential Recordings Lyndon B. Johnson (Presidential Recordings) by The Miller Center
• Amazon.com: The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency by Lyndon B. Johnson
• Amazon.com: American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War by David Kaiser
• Amazon.com: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

Lyndon Johnson Satire and Humor

• Library of Congress: Herblock's History, Lyndon Johnson Political Cartoons
• David Levine's "Johnson" Vietnam Cartoon

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