What Does it Take to be a Great President? (You must have the initials LBJ lol XD)

 

Laura Juncker

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Lyndon B Johnson

 

 

Where I Live(ed):

Texas, TX

Blog: http://iamediacenter.blogspot.com

Website: Official White House Biography

 

About Me:

Well, I have three sisters (love you Rebekah, Josefa and Lucia!) and I have one brother (Sam). I was elected president of my eigth grade class and now I am actually president (How cool is that!?)!  Then I graduated from Johnson City High School.  I went to California for a while in '25 and worked for a while as an Elevator Shaft operator (Oh the people you meet!).

 

Then I went back to Texas again and attended Southwest Texas State (which they changed the name of without my permision!  I am the president of the United States for crying out loud!  Don't I get to have any say in these important matters?!  And I was pretty active in school too!  I mean, I worked hard during school, I was an editor for the school newspaper, and I participated in debates! I mean yeah, I dropped out for a while...but I came back!)

 

But that is in the past now.  I left the school and went on to even greater things. For example... schools!

 

I taught at a school in 1927. My first time teaching was at Wellhausen School. The school had a majority of Mexican students, then I taught at Pearsall High School, and then at Sam Huston High School.

 I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

 

So, I suppose that is how it all started. I got married to my lovely wife Claudia Alta Taylor.  (she is so pretty and I love her so!  xoxoxox ♥♥♥) And she has the nickname Lady Bird Johnson.

Date of Birth:

August 27th 1908 in a small farmhouse in the poor area of the Pedernales River. (near Stonewall, Texas)

Date of Death:

January 22nd 1973 in Stonewall, Texas (aged 64)

Sex:

Male

Political Views:

Democrat!  (you are going down Republicans! ha ha ha!!!)

 

Religious Views:

Christadelphian influenced by Jewish beliefs or a Disciple of Christ

 

My Wife

Isn't she lovely?  I call her Claudia but everyone else calls her Lady Bird.  She looks so fashionable in this photo. *sigh* <3 <3 xoxox She has the same initials as me too!  LBJ!  Isn't that cute? We match!  Well, our names do at the least. (The good thing is that towels with our initials are easy to get cause we only need one set!)

Children:

Lynda Bird (born in 1944), Luci Baines (born in 1947) - they're so cuteee!

Looking for:

Friendship, networking, and some friends to chat with on the fellytone =]

Occupations:

Teacher, Career Politician, and can't forget elevator operator!

 

Interests/Hobbies:

• Naming people with the same initials as myself (such as my wife, my children, my dog Little Beagle Johnson, etc.)
• Teaching
• Smoking
• Public Speaking

 

Education:

• Southwest Texas State Teachers College

 

Favorite Books:

OMG! All of Dr.Seuss' books for sure! Then I would have to say How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie yah!

 

Favorite Movies:

Ben-Hur

Singin' in the Rain

12 Angry Men (nothing better than a good debate!)

Paths of Glory

Cinderella (it is a manly movie.....I swear! I liked the singing mice.)

 

 

Favorite Music:

Superbird by Country Joe & the Fish (I like it because it talks about me!!!)

 

 

Friends:

• John F Kennedy
• Jim Rowe  
• Hubert Humphrey (with a name like that how can you NOT love him?) 
• Richard Nixon
• Claudia (my best friend is my wife)

Sports:

• Does naming people after myself count as a sport?

 

During my stint as president, the political, social and economic factors and challenges that I had to deal with (at home) included:

 

Political

• I totally enacted a new civil rights bill and a tax cut that JFK wanted.
• A second term was out of the question by 1964 after passing the Civil Rights act- I had lost majority of my supporters. 

• Many of my ideas on racism were not well liked by the Legislative branch.

 

Social

• The Great Society program started in 1965 that was to deal with aid in education, disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
• I championed a space program and, under me, the space exploration became spectacular!  Seriously! Three astronauts orbited the moon THREE times on December 1968.

• I helped millions of eldery people with my 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act- creating Medicare.

 

Economic

• I had to deal with the large unemployment rate of African Americans.
• I dealt with the unfairness in job discrimination for African Americans and other minorites (especially in the south).

 

 

During my stint as president, the political, social and economic factors and challenges that I had to deal with (abroad) included:

 

Political

• I dealt with the unfair policies of South Africa- I opposed their views.

 

Social

• I faced the challenge of changing policies on racism- by cutting funding to institutions that supported segregation.

• I dealt with the opposition by citizens to the Vietnam war.

 

 

 

Looking back at my presidential career, I had to wear several "hats."  Wearing these different "hats," these were my most significant achievements and failures:

 

Commander-in-Chief

Vietnam war ring a bell? To halt the spread of communism- I began the campaign to stop the Viet-Cong in their path.

Chief Executive

detail

Chief Diplomat

I hung out with President Charles de Gaulle of France at the funeral of Kennedy.

Ceremonial Head of State

detail

Manager of the Economy

Of course, there was my unfulfilled dream of the assurance, not to relieve the symptom of poverty but to cure it.

Party Leader

I chose the leading party members to serve in the Cabinet.

National Leader

I adressed the problem of racism to the natoin- while still appealing to my southern supporters.

 

Favorite Quote About Me by a Famous Historian:

“[After the end of her term in Congress, Barbara Jordan was recruited for a faculty position at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.] I thought, now what better thing could I do than to go there, ... to the University of Texas, to the LBJ School and help those young people become the bright leaders of government as Lyndon Johnson so wanted?” -Barbara Jordan

 

 

LBJ:

You know... tons of stuff can have the initials LBJ!  Such as...

• Lousy Brainless Junkies
• Lovely Banana Juice
• Lilac Blue Jumpsuits
• Laura B Juncker (shes not giving away her middle name)
• Laborious Bothersome Jenga
• Love By Jury
• Live Binnocular Jargons 

 

Positive Political Cartoon

 (look at how manly I am in this picture!  Yay)

Negative Political Cartoon

 

Works Cited:

Trueman, Chris. " Lyndon Johnson." Civil Rights (2003) 23 May 2008 <http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson.htm>.

"Lyndon B. Johnson." 2008 23 May 2008 <http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/lj36.html>.

PBS, "American Expirience." The Presidents (2002) 23 May 2008 <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/36_l_johnson/l_johnson_legacy.html>.

 

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