Episode #379: Lyndon Johnson #7: "That God-awful Job" (1961-1963)

Episode #379: Lyndon Johnson #7: "That God-awful Job" (1961-1963)

Lyndon Johnson #7: "That God-awful Job" (1961-1963); Topics covered include: Johnson as Vice President of the United States, difficulties with the Kennedy team and the Democrats on Capitol Hill, VP travels including trips to South Vietnam and Berlin in 1961 (including building of the Berlin Wall), Chair of the Space Council, Chair of the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (CEEO), Johnson helps Kennedy evolve on civil rights, initial planning for the 1964 campaign including trip to Dallas, Texas, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the return to Washington, D.C. after the assassination Key people include: Bobby Kennedy, Mike Mansfield, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nikita Khrushchev, Eugene (Bull) Connor, George Wallace, John Connally, Nellie Connally, Jacqueline Kennedy, Ralph Yarborough, Rufus Youngblood, Ken O'Donnell, Sarah Hughes, and Lady Bird Johnson For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #378: Lyndon Johnson #6: The 1960 Election (1958-1960)

Lyndon Johnson #6: The 1960 Election (1958-1960); Topics covered include: 1958 midterm elections, 1960 presidential election, Johnson's strategy, John Kennedy wins the Democratic nomination, Johnson considers an offer for the vice presidential nomination and eventually accepts, the issue of Kennedy's Catholicism is prominent in the campaign, and the Kennedy/Johnson ticket wins the election Key people include: John Kennedy, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, Warren Harding, Sam Rayburn, Homer Thornberry, John Garner, Bobby Kennedy, John Adams, Richard Nixon, Henry Cabot Lodge, Lady Bird Johnson, and Harry Byrd For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #377: Lyndon Johnson #5: Master of the Senate (1954-1958)

Lyndon Johnson #5: Master of the Senate (1954-1958); Topics covered include: 1954 midterm elections, becomes Majority Leader (youngest ever), consolidates power in his office, "The Treatment," suffers heart attack, recuperation period and life adjustments, 1956 election, Civil Rights Act of 1957 (and perspective), and the 1958 midterm election Key people include: Wayne Morse, Bobby Baker, Dwight Eisenhower, Stuart Symington, George Brown, Clinton Anderson, Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevenson, Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, Herbert Brownell, Richard Russell, William Rogers, Bayard Rustin, and Sam Rayburn For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #376: Lyndon Johnson #4: To the Upper House (Barely) (1948-1954)

Lyndon Johnson #4: To the Upper House (Barely) (1948-1954); Topics covered include: Elected to Senate, aligns with Richard Russell, Korean War, Chair of Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, becomes Majority Whip, buys KTBC-TV, buys LBJ Ranch, becomes Minority Leader, and censure of Senator Joe McCarthy Key people include: Pappy O'Daniel, Coke Stevenson, George Peddy, George Parr, Abe Fortas, Hugo Black, Richard Russell, Harry Truman, Ernest McFarland, Dwight Eisenhower, and Joe McCarthy Correction at 10:09: should be 1952 (not 1942) For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #375: Lyndon Johnson #3: The Politician Emerges (1937-1948)

Lyndon Johnson #3: The Politician Emerges (1937-1948); Topics covered include: Enters the U.S. House of Representatives, establishes a mentorship relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt, very hard on his staff, womanizing/ affairs, runs for the Senate (1941) and barely loses, charges of campaign malfeasance against Johnson's backers from Brown & Root, start of World War II, activated by the U.S. Naval Reserves, deploys to the South Pacific as an observer on behalf of President Roosevelt, goes on a bombing mission, awarded a Silver Star by General Douglas MacArthur, returns to his seat in Congress, investigation of campaign contributions by Brown & Root, buys radio station KTBC with Lady Bird, birth of two daughters, death of Franklin Roosevelt, and begins to become more conservative in his politics Key people include: Franklin Roosevelt, Tommy Corcoran, Sam Rayburn, George Reedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Alice Glass, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Morris Sheppard, Gerald Mann, Martin Dies, W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, Douglas MacArthur, Francis Stevens, George Brown, Herman Brown, Lynda Bird Johnson, Lucy Baines Johnson, and Harry Truman For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/