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By , LBJ felt politically prepared to run for president. However, the Democratic convention nominated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who received votes over LBJ's Kennedy then asked LBJ to be his vice-presidential running mate, a strategic move to garner support in the South. Kennedy and LBJ defeated the Richard Nixon-Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. GOP ticket in one of the closest elections in American history.

As vice president and chairman of the Space Council, LBJ headed up the US space program. Just days after the Soviet Union launched the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, , President Kennedy assigned Vice President Johnson to investigate the US space program's potential. LBJ, working with NASA's famed rocket architect Wernher von Braun, reported that with an "all-out crash program," America could get to the moon by or One month later, on May 25, , Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress to announce the goal of putting an American

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Lyndon B. Johnson

President of the United States from to

"Lyndon Johnson" and "LBJ" redirect here. For the American football player, see Lyndon Johnson (American football). For other uses, see LBJ (disambiguation).

Lyndon B. Johnson
Official portrait,
In office November 22, &#;– January 20,
Vice President
Preceded by	John F. Kennedy
Succeeded by	Richard Nixon
In office January 20, &#;– November 22,
President	John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	Richard Nixon
Succeeded by	Hubert Humphrey
In office January 3, &#;– January 3,
Preceded by	W. Lee O'Daniel
Succeeded by	William A. Blakley
In office April 10, &#;– January 3,
Preceded by	James P. Buchanan
Succeeded by	Homer Thornberry
Born	Lyndon Baines Johnson ()August 27, Gillespie County, Texas, U.S.
Died	January 22, () (aged&#;64) Gillespie County, Texas, U.S.
Resting place	Johnson Family Cemetery
Political party	Democr • The Years of Lyndon Johnson Biography series by Robert Caro Covers of the four published books of the series The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3, pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fifth volume, which is currently being written, is expected to deal with the bulk of Johnson's presidency and post-presidential years. The series is published by Alfred A. Knopf. Book One: The Path to Power () [edit] In the first volume, The Path to Power, Caro retraced Johnson's early life growing up in the Texas Hill Country and working in Washington, D.C. first as a congressional aide and then as a congressman. Caro's research included renting a house in the Hill Country for three years, living there much of that time, to interview numerous people who knew Johnson and his family, and to better understand the environme