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Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

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Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...