LBJ : The Architect Of The Great Society

Wednesday (sorry, I'm a day late!) would have been Lyndon Baines Johnson's 100th birthday. From May 1964: "The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning." In November 1964, he was elected President "with the greatest percentage of the total popular vote (61%) ever attained."

Here is his legacy, not just as a legislator, but as an executive who understood Congress, having risen from that body to the White House:

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