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Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson |
 | | Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his family had helped settle. |
 | | After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948. |
 | | The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. |
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