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unusual facts about Lyndon B Johnson



America's Choir

The choir has performed at the inaugurations of United States Presidents Lyndon B Johnson (1965), Richard M Nixon (1969), Ronald Reagan (1981), George Bush (1989), and George W Bush (2001).


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Albert Richard Thomas

He witnessed the swearing in of President Lyndon Baines Johnson on Air Force One which included the 'infamous wink' to Lyndon B. Johnson.

Bilingual Education Act

The BEA was introduced in 1967 by Texas senator Ralph Yarborough and was later signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 2, 1968.

Claudia Johnson

Lady Bird Johnson (Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, 1912–2007), First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson

Cornbread

President John F. Kennedy's staffers, who were mostly northeastern ivy league elites and despised Texan Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson's rural speech patterns, used to refer to Johnson behind his back as 'Uncle Cornpone' or 'Rufus Cornpone'.

Lake Lyndon B. Johnson

The dam would be renamed Wirtz Dam in 1952 for Alvin J. Wirtz, the first general counsel of the LCRA, and the lake was renamed to Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 in honor of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Le Thor

Pierre Salinger (1925-2004), a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, lived in "La Bastide rose" until his death.

National Housing Act

Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" program, which provided a national system of rent subsidies in the United States

Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center

Jack Valenti: former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, special assistant to US President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Sid W. Richardson

Sid Richardson Hall, an academic building at the University of Texas, Austin, which houses the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection, the UT Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection.

Thomas Elmer Braniff

Texas Senator William A. Blakley, who in 1961 was appointed to then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's seat after LBJ was elected Vice President of the United States, created with Tom Braniff, the Blakley Braniff Foundation.