Where was Lyndon B. Johnson when he was sworn in as US President?
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963.
Johnson's presidency took place during a healthy economy, with steady growth and low unemployment. Regarding the rest of the world, there were no serious controversies with major countries. Attention therefore focused on domestic policy, and, after 1966, on the Vietnam War.
Johnson was quickly sworn in as President on Air Force One in Dallas on November 22, 1963, just 2 hours and 8 minutes after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, amid suspicions of a conspiracy against the government. He was sworn in by U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a family friend. In the rush, a Bible was not at hand, so Johnson took the oath of office using a Roman Catholic missal from President Kennedy's desk.
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Spencer Young
While i was reading the list of choices, I thought of Dr. Seuss =)
davidgrimsrud
sad day 11/22/63
Carroll Price
No serious controversies with major countries? You gotta be kidding. Ever hear of Red China, the Soviet Union or the Cold War?
John Edwards
Richard S. Levine, I think your definition of 'plane' is very unique. In fact, I would go as far as saying that you, and you alone would use your dedinituon of 'plane'.
Carroll Price
Richard S. Levine, Boeing 707 "jets" are planes. (short for airplane)
Kristin Erika Haskins
I was only 13, and in my classroom at school when the world stopped.
Worst thing in my life at the time. Scary...I cried! We all got dismissed to go home to our families.....
Slowly, traumatised, I walked home in a damp, gray drizzle, to spend the next three sad, horrible, gloomy nightmare in front of the television.
It felt like we were all made of glass that would shatter more and more with every drum beat in the slow, dreadfully relentless, persistent pain of the millions ....
celaineflynn
The day I was elected President of my college freshman class. My father died 2 weeks previously, the day after my 18th birthday. Very difficult time.
Joseph A. Robitaille
I remember this one. Good Q and answer.
Anita Clark Morton
Richard S. Levine, You must be the ONLY person in the world who does not call a 747 or a 707 a plane. Get a life!!
Bill Coe
Richard S. Levine, An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller.
Quiz Taker
Am in the process of reading S. King's "11/22/63".....interesting!
stewlaw
I was older (10) when Bobby was killed, which was perhaps an even greater loss because of his ability to unify so many different kinds of people. Tough Irish cops adored him and young Black kids would chase after his limousine just to put a hand on him. Two questions , as long we're here. First, would the world have been different had the Kennedys lived? How? Yes, pure speculation...Second, can you imagine any other country in the world experiencing internal social upheavals of this magnitude and three of their most prominent reform-oriented liberal leaders -- including Dr. King -- get killed, and we would conclude it's just a succession of crazed gunmen acting alone without any larger motive? Really?
stewlaw
He never should have gone to Dallas. Injun country.
stewlaw
edwardgouger, and she still had his blood splattered on the bottom of her dress
stewlaw
Carroll Price, true indeed! We had thousands of advisors in Vietnam and had just signed off on the coup against Diem which would soon thrust us headlong into the war. The missile crisis? Excuser me.....
melesaefary
I was 6. I remember my teacher getting a phone call on the " new phones to the school office" in our classroom and she was crying but all the kids on my bus seemed to not know what was going on. We arrived at the bus stop same time as the high school kids which never happened before or since probably. He and I walked home like Wally and Beaver and he explained it to me. Back then in Yuma Arizona we only had 2 channels and I couldn't watch cartoons for days because everything was about the the President. It is so sad that possibly our own government did it. That is sadder than the day it happened.
juliavera
She was still covered in blood edwardgouger,
JOHN FLEMING
His lack of integrity resulted in a wasteful Vietnam War, that would be lost,A Civil Rights program designed to not guarantee equality, but slave-like dependence of black Americans
mavon
Like him or not, he did get a lot done. Medicare for one . Desegregation, for another. He made it his goal, to follow through on things President Kennedy planned for.
eslahaye
Anne Sewell, I keep having the same problem. It takes forever!
simmingerp
davidgrimsrud,
I believe that our nation could have done better with two terms of JFK , than what had happened (& I'm a Republican too. Not a rino either).
tomjohns
You mean after he orchestrated the assassination of John Kennedy?
Anne Sewell
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edwardgouger
He was sworn in on air Force 1 next to Kennedy's casket and Jacklin Kennedy was also in attendence
Harry Rogers
I remember that sad day, too. LBJ wasn’t a bad President. The darkest spot on his presidency was the Vietnam war. If one would overlook the Vietnam War, would come to the conclusion that he was actually a great president.