The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him

On April 20, Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking Johnson to look into the status of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up.

* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

* Lyndon B. Johnson often met with important advisors at the retreat and hosted Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.

* C. R. Smith ( Cyrus Rowlett Smith ), U. S. Secretary of Commerce under president Lyndon B. Johnson

He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.

Prime Minister Harold Holt with U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in October 1966.

Holt also forged a close relationship with U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, whom he had first met in Melbourne in 1942.

Holt during a visit to US president Lyndon B. Johnson 1 June 1967

Keller met every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.

On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States ' two highest civilian honors.

* 1967 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U. S. Supreme Court.

* 1967 – Cold War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.

* 1964 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.

* 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law.

* 1968 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

What's Lyndon B. Johnson's maxim?

* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

* 1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his " Great Society " during his State of the Union address.

* 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a " War on Poverty " in the United States.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

He then switches back to a consideration of the seven principal Presidential hopefuls: five Democrats -- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Adlai E. Stevenson and Mr. Kennedy -- and two Republicans -- Governor Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon.

It was renamed in honor of Lyndon Johnson by federal law, soon after his death in 1973.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

* Lyndon Baines Johnson Day ( Texas )

In 1968, Alston received a presidential appointment from Lyndon Johnson to the National Council of Culture and the Arts.

Every president after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

During a taping of Mason's monologue Sullivan, off camera, gestured that Mason should wrap things up by giving him two fingers, meaning " two minutes left ", as the show was suddenly shown live following an abbreviated address by President Lyndon Johnson, which was expected to preempt the entire show.

* Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary School – Jackson, Kentucky

El Cenizo is zoned to Kennedy-Zapata Elementary School ( Unincorporated Webb County ), Salvador Garcia Middle School ( Rio Bravo ), and Lyndon B. Johnson High School ( Laredo ).

Other locations named in honor of Thaddeus Stevens includes the community of Stevens, Pennsylvania, Stevens County, Kansas, Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Stevens School in Lyndon Center, Vermont, Stevens School ( York, Pennsylvania ), Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in the Chartiers neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ( built in 1940 with architectural details by Charles Bradley Warren ), and Stevens High School ( Lancaster, Pennsylvania ).

Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School, William Ohrenberger School, Joyce Kilmer K-8 School, and Patrick Lyndon K-8 School are in West Roxbury.

Lyndon Baines Johnson ( August 27, 1908 –&# 32 ; January 22, 1973 ), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States ( 1963 – 1969 ), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States ( 1961 – 1963 ).

The Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, which includes much of the former president's LBJ Ranch, is located just outside of Stonewall.

Stonewall is the birthplace and deathplace of former U. S. President Lyndon Johnson, and his LBJ Ranch ( much of which is now the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park ) is located nearby.

A Lockheed JetStar which was used by Lyndon Johnson during his presidency is on display at the LBJ Ranch ( now the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park ) in Stonewall, TX.

The river flows through several more reservoirs before reaching Austin, including Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, commonly referred to as Lake LBJ, and Lake Travis.

Quaid also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years, but he's perhaps best known for his roles in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies as well as Brokeback Mountain and Independence Day.

He was also nominated for an Emmy and won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years.

The ninth documentary in the series, entitled " The Guilty Men ," directly implicates former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ( LBJ ) and created an outcry among Johnson's surviving associates, including Johnson's widow, Lady Bird Johnson, journalist Bill Moyers, ex-President Jimmy Carter, Jack Valenti ( longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America ), and the last-living ( at the time of the outcry ) Warren Commission commissioner and ex-President Gerald R. Ford.

* LBJ = Lyndon Baines Johnson ;

Lembcke says he found no evidence to suggest this ever happened and suggests it may have come in part from the common chant by protesters aimed at President Lyndon Baines Johnson, " Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?

He has written and performed in several one-man shows including, " Hemingway ", " Teddy ", " An Evening with Clarence Darrow ", as well as, " Lyndon ", which he didn't write, but has performed numerous times, including a schedule at the LBJ Museum in Austin, Texas, where Lady Bird Johnson was one of those in attendance.

Ellington had a close friendship with President Lyndon B. Johnson, and was a guest at the " LBJ Ranch " in Texas.

* Lyndon Johnson ( LBJ )

His book, The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, was republished in 2000 by Texas A & M University Press with a new afterward drawing on tapes released by the LBJ Library.

1987: Randy Quaid – LBJ: The Early Years as Lyndon B. Johnson

Sam wrote the book My Brother Lyndon after LBJ left the White House.

Her later awards include Distinguished American Award from the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation ( 2003 ), The LBJ Award for Leadership in Civil Rights from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum ( 2004 ), and the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum ( 2008 ).

*" Life Portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson ", broadcast from the LBJ Ranch from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits