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Lyndon B. Johnson
1963 - 1969
Other Johnson images are located at TP Images of American Political History.
Required readings for Week 8 - March 3-7:
1) Greenstein Chapter 6 - Lyndon B. Johnson and the Primacy of Politics
2) Renka, Lyndon Johnson and the Legislative Presidency
3) Renka, Lyndon Johnson: Civil rights and Vietnam
Johnson's presidential election - 1964
LBJ quiz - March 17 to 26
Essay 3 on Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter - Friday, April 11 in the Drop Box
Professor Renka's Johnson Links; Miller Center's biography - American President President Lyndon Johnson: A Life in Brief
Timeline: The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century - Lyndon Johnson
Link to United States History Index - 1960s; Richard Jensen's American Political History On-Line - Kennedy to Carter
LBJ Key Terms and Miller Center's Lyndon Baines Johnson: A Life in Brief
Audio/Video files:
Renka, Johnson speeches
LBJ on the Telephone:
a) with Richard Russell and others:
American RadioWorks - The President Calling; and
b) with Adam Clayton Powell: LBJ Library's
Telephone Conversations Release Sample Audio Files (scroll down to
Powell, 3/1/65);
c) see C-SPAN Radio's
LBJ White House Tapes to find other conversations.
LBJ's speech masterpiece: 3/15/65 - We Shall Overcome (Am Pres Project, in QuickTime) or We Shall Overcome (Am. Rhetoric, with text, in mp3)
Syllabus link (different course): sixties in stereo: the johnson years by Kent Germany, University of Virginia