Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States on November 22nd, 1963, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was sworn in on Air Force One, and now he had to to address the nation and deal with Kennedy's unfinished work. He was a Texan, and he was a master of the political world. He built coalitions and learned how to manipulate people into doing what he wanted while in the House of Representatives.

One of his first objectives was to complete Kennedy's work on the civil rights issue. Johnson, in 1964, was able to push through the Civil Rights Act. The Act, among other things, was a prohibition on discrimination in public and job settings. Johnson, the following year, signed the Voting Rights Act which created unrestricted access to the ballot by the Black American community. These acts, among other things, restructured America.

But his plans didn't end there. He also proposed his version of the Great Society. This plan consisted of a variety of programs aimed at eliminating poverty and providing opportunities for all Americans. He proposed Medicaid and Medicare to provide health coverage for the poor and the elderly. He also contributed funding to poorer school districts to improve education. He also established the housing and urban development department. He initiated the preschool program called Head Start. His time in office was characterized by economic growth and low unemployment. Many historians considered his time in office as productive as the New Deal in terms of law and policy reforms.

Unfortunately, as time went by, the threat of the Vietnam War loomed larger. He inherited a small presence in Vietnam. He started with a small presence, but over time began to increase American presence in the Vietnam War. After the Vietnam War attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, Congress was able to grant him more powers to deploy more troops. By the end of 1968, there were more than 500,000 U.S. soldiers present in Vietnam. Families were able to see the number of soldiers and their wounded bodies in the jungle during the American draft and during Vietnam War? Every plan he proposed to Americans  In America, there were many anti-war demonstrations and violent protests on the streets. The first Tet Offensive  was seen as a ledge for the Americans, however, other military experts said it was actually sophisticated.

Because of surge of pressure the public the breaking point finally came. On March 31, 1968, Johnson Announced the bombshell decision that he would not seek re-election. He devoted the final stretch of  his presidency trying to initiate the Paris Peace talks. Johnson resigned in January 1969 to allow the newly elected Richard Nixon to become President.

Looking back to 1960s Johnson's presidency shows a glaring contradiction. As President, Johnson managed to make the most liberal and progressive legislation that extended social and economic rights to racism and legal barriers that had kept not just the American people but the disenfranchised people of the world in a colonial and economic servitude to the capitalist interests of the United States. He not only extended the legal rights of the colonial and oppressed people but also extended the invisible empire of America and legal servitude to the people of colonial America. lThe only and most negative legacy of Johnson Presidency that America had to pay with the blood of the newly seved people of the world and with the lives of the American people This and the fact that Johnson died at his ranch in Texas still showed the social legacy and the source of the social controversies that Johnson left behind but that was also the social legacy that shaped American life. Johnson ignored the overwhelmingly negative social legacy and left behind a legacy that would dominate the s on both his own mistakes and the high cost of his mistakes with the legacy that showed America how a government that actually had the ability to SOLVE people problems rather than use other people to make huge problems the government.