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Johnson appointed one judge to the United States Court of Claims, Samuel Milligan, who served from 1868 to 1874.
When Brown retired as head coach following the 1975 season and appointed Bill " Tiger " Johnson as his successor, Walsh resigned and served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.
He was the first president to serve in Congress after his term of office, and one of only two former presidents to do so ( Andrew Johnson later served in the Senate ).
Lyndon B. Johnson was the only president under the amendment to be eligible to serve more than two terms in total, having served for only fourteen months following John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. ( May 27, 1911January 13, 1978 ), served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States.
Andrew Johnson is the only former president to have subsequently served in the Senate.
Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, served as a United States Representative from 1937 – 1949 and as a Senator from 1949 – 1961, including six years as United States Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader and two as Senate Majority Whip.
In 1951, Johnson was chosen as Senate Majority Whip under a new Majority Leader, Ernest McFarland of Arizona, and served from 1951 to 1953.
Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position, Taylor Branch in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy administration's actions for civil rights further and faster than Kennedy originally intended to go.
He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy and then served as the Solicitor General after being appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.
The department's first director was Philip Johnson who served as curator between 1932 – 34 and 1946-54.
Since the Amendment's ratification, the only other President who could clearly have legally served more than eight years was Lyndon B. Johnson.
Disinclined to use the Council meetings for advice, Johnson, like Kennedy, relied heavily on his National Security Advisers: McGeorge Bundy, who remained in office through February 1966, and Bundy's successor, Walt Rostow, who served to the end of the administration.
He served as Senate Majority Whip under Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson from 1957 to 1961.
Clark McAdams Clifford ( December 25, 1906 – October 10, 1998 ) was an American lawyer who served United States Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, serving as United States Secretary of Defense for Johnson.
After Johnson became president in November 1963 following Kennedy's assassination, Clifford served frequently as an unofficial White House Counsel and sometimes undertook short-term official duties, including a trip with General Maxwell Taylor in 1967 to Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
He then opened a successful law practice in Johnson City, and also served as a banker and publisher.
Seward served as president of the S. S. Seward Institute after the death of his father, even while serving as Secretary of State during the Lincoln and Johnson administrations.
Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson ; he served as United States Ambassador to India under Kennedy.
Johnson, who served as a bombardier in the Pacific during World War II, stated that he had some difficulty remembering his more technically oriented lines.
Johnson served as chairman of the Committee on Claims during the Eleventh Congress ( 1809 – 1811 ).
Johnson served as chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses.
" Jackson supported Johnson for vice-president, thinking that the war hero would balance the ticket with Van Buren, who had not served in the War of 1812.

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Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.
You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??
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.
* 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
* Manuel H. Johnson, Former Vice Governor of the Federal Reserve
Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln, but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's cause.
* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.
of State Dean Rusk, Sen. George Aiken, President Kennedy, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Sen. Everett Dirksen, William C. Foster, Sen. Howard W. Cannon, Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, Vice President Johnson.
Tyler's precedent made it possible for Vice Presidents Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson to ascend to the presidency ( Gerald Ford took office after the passage of the Twenty-fifth Amendment ).
In that same election no candidate for Vice President secured a majority in the electoral college as Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson did not receive the electoral votes of Democratic electors from Virginia, because of his relationship with a former slave.
This caused the Senate to choose whether Johnson or Granger would be the new Vice President.
Lyndon B. Johnson ( the 37th Vice President ), incoming Pres.
* 1961 – Newly elected President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took office in 1961 ; Kennedy established the Peace Corps.
* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey took office in January.
* March 4 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term ; Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President.
** John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President.
* November 19 – Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States ( b. 1780 )
Vice President Spiro Agnew and former President Lyndon B. Johnson view the liftoff of Apollo 11 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center
Richard M. Johnson offered the following resolution: " It is inexpedient, at this time, to proceed to the nomination of persons for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States.
As Vice President, Humphrey was controversial for his complete and vocal loyalty to Johnson and the policies of the Johnson Administration, even as many of Humphrey's liberal admirers opposed Johnson with increasing fervor with respect to Johnson's policies during the war in Vietnam.

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