Websites
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All you've ever wanted to know and more in 45 million document pages, 650,000 photos, and 5,000 hours of recordings.
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LBJ gets the PBS treatment as part of its series The Presidents.
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50 years of VISTA.
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An interactive exhibit featuring 60 individuals who shaped the 1960s.
Movie and TV Productions
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Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of the president's rise in this made-for-TV movie.
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The critically acclaimed depiction of a pivotal moment in civil rights history has its share of detractors who say LBJ isn't portrayed fairly.
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Bryan Cranston reprises his Tony Award–winning Broadway role as LBJ in this HBO drama.
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Woody Harrelson steps into Johnson's presidential shoes in this upcoming political biopic.
Articles and Interviews
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Joseph A. Califano, special assistant to LBJ from 1965 through the end of his presidential term, talks about the administration's accomplishments.
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The Washington Post recaps the Great Society on the 50th anniversary of LBJ's speech.
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A cool learning guide from The New York Times that cuts back and forth from LBJ's Great Society speech and a recent article about poverty in Appalachia. The verdict? The war's still on.
Video
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A concise look at the causes and effects of the Great Society.
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The Office of Economic Opportunity produced this short on the war on poverty.
Audio
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Audio of the May 22nd, 1964, Great Society speech at the University of Michigan.
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Six U.S. presidents secretly recorded phone calls and Oval Office conversations. LBJ was one of them. A selection of those tapes can be heard here.
Images
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Lyndon Johnson becomes the 36th president of the United States.
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The president meets with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., December 1963.
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In the spring of 1964 LBJ and the first lady toured Appalachia, one of the poorest regions in the country, to meet with local residents.
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The Lady Bird Special campaign train heads out in October 1964.
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LBJ watches election returns, November 1964, on the Big 3—ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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LBJ talks to MLK after signing the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.
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Days after the Voting Rights Act was signed, riots erupt in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.
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Detroit explodes, 1967.
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Demonstrators march to protest the war in Vietnam, 1967. Guess who they blamed for it.
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Lady Bird visits a Head Start class, 1968.
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Lady Bird among the Texas wildflowers, 1968.
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The president at his ranch in Stonewall, Texas, 1968.