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Lyndon B. Johnson the 36th president of our united states started life as a poor man in the small town of Johnson City, Texas. After High school he moved to California to work on a highway crew. He decided that there was an easier way to go through life so he moved back to Texas to attend Southwest Texas State to get his degree in education. His first job was after college was as a teacher at a Mexican-American school in Cotulla, Texas. Seeing the great poverty and hardships of his students impacted his legislative actions in his future political career. Johnson’s domestic policies focused mainly on the education of our citizens and the problem of constant poverty and unequal treatment among minorities
Lyndon B. Johnson political career began as a representative of the 10th district of Texas, Johnson soon took his political career to Washington when he was elected to the United States senate. After only two years in the senate he became the minority leader of the Democratic......

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