http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k

Watch the famous LBJ attack ad from 1964 where a little girl picks at a daisy, before a mushroom cloud absorbs the screen.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpSuTz11OGw

March 1, 1965 – In this heated phone conversation, President Lyndon B. Johnson reprimands Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (D-NY) for holding up an education bill in the House of Representatives.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuuEFTgodc8

As part of his State of the Union address on January 4, 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke of his Great Society – a set of domestic programs aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. President Johnson first mentioned the term “Great Society” during a speech at Ohio University in May of 1974, further detailing the program in a speech at the University of Michigan later that month. This video shows clips of President Johnson’s State of the Union address.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjok0n6ckLg

Hear a phone call between President Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover where they address open investigations, the status of FBI informants, and three civil rights volunteers who disappeared from Mississippi in 1964.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson explains the importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and speaks about what passing it means to him after signing it on April 11, 1968.

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