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The Great Society

Be sure to add where the ideas came from. The ideas embedded in the Great Society were ideas from President Johnson's assassinated predecessor, President Kennedy When President Johnson was sworn in on Air Force One, he vowed to continued President Kennedy's the New Frontier. The New Frontier included: Medicare, federal support for education, and wilderness protection ^[1]

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Claim that the War on Poverty brought millions of Americans over the poverty line:

"the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during his administration." Taking a look at the statistics of American poverty, this is wrong. There was a sharp decline in poverty before LBJ enacted his war on poverty. During LBJs presidency, this decline leveled out and has stayed constant since then, indicating that LBJ did not benefit the US poverty level.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4ca0:2201:1:1a66:daff:fe2c:7052 (talk) 10:24, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The cited source (Califano) confirms the claim, but there are lots of other analysts out there who have discussed the issue. Binksternet (talk) 00:55, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Active duty

It seems to me that some explanation is in order for Johnson's 'release' from active duty in 1942. The war had quite some way to go. Not saying there wasn't justification. I just think I and readers should know what it was.Toyokuni3 (talk) 22:32, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Silver Star

In 2001 CNN ran a special on LBJ's Silver Star, going beyond the Caro biography to include newly found sources. This is the transcript, which demonstrates that LBJ's airplane got nowhere near the target on his Silver Star mission.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/06/lt.06.html

Disclosure: I helped research and wrote the original article in Naval History magazine and was among those interviewed by CNN correspondent Jamie McIntyre. This year's History Channel series on presidents during WW II mostly relied on material from the 1960s.

BTillman, 26 February 2019

Sentence on Johnson's patrilineal descent should be removed

The source listed for the sentence "His patrilineal descent traces back to John Johnson, born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1590." is the website Geneanet, which is a website for user-generated family trees similar to Rootsweb. This seems to be a violation of WP:NOR, so the sentence should be removed unless a better source is found.2601:184:4080:C94:FC7E:CBBE:2EF5:AE69 (talk) 09:28, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "56b. Kennedy's New Frontier". ushistory.org. Retrieved July 9, 2018.

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