Nov. 4, 1964, just after midnight. LBJ and Ted Kennedy congratulate each other on their election-day victories in this three-minute telephone call.
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Nov. 4, 1964, just after midnight. LBJ and Ted Kennedy congratulate each other on their election-day victories in this three-minute telephone call.
November 3, 1964. It’s election day! President Johnson spends most of the day resting at the LBJ Ranch before he heads to Austin to watch the election returns at the Driskill Hotel.
LBJ Library Photos 436-107-WH64, 436-230-WH64, 436-390-WH64, 436-157-WH64, 436-176-WH64, 436-140-WH64, 436-68-WH64, 436-258-WH64, 436-344-WH64; images are in the public domain.
November 1, 1964. President Johnson spends the day at the White House before he returns to Texas tomorrow to await the election.
LBJ Presidential Library Museum collection, credit Lauren Gerson, copyright unknown. Copyright restriction warnings may apply.
October 31, 1964. Today LBJ’s campaign goes through Dover, Wilmington, and Farmingdale, Long Island. The President ends the day of campaigning with a rally at Madison Square Gardens with Luci, Lynda, Mrs. Johnson, and Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Kennedy. RFK is running for Senate.
Follow the campaign route here.
LBJ Library photos 435-95-WH64, 435-131-WH64, and 433-105-WH64; images are in the public domain.
October 30, 1964. After departing Philadelphia, the President campaigns in Detroit, Milwaukee, Rockford, and Chicago.
In Milwaukee, the Presidential motorcade went through residential streets where President Johnson stopped to talk to the owners of a local grocery store and take pictures with some of the residents of the neighborhood.
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LBJ Library photos 433-230-WH64, 433-204-WH64, 433-19-WH64, 433-35-WH64, and 433-169-WH64; images are in the public domain.
October 28, 1964. Today LBJ heads to LA, along with Albuquerque, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
In San Bernardino, he stops by the Frank C. Platt building where he once worked as an elevator operator. Photos of President and Mrs. Johnson in the elevator can be seen in the contact sheet!
President Johnson spends the night in Salt Lake City, where he will continue campaigning tomorrow.
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LBJ Library photos 432-313-WH64, 432-354-WH64, 432-347-WH64, and 432-248-WH64, images are in the public domain.
October 27, 1964. The election is still more than a week away, and LBJ’s hands are already painful from all the handshakes on the campaign trail. At noon today he meets British politician Patrick Gordon Walker, who remarks:
“I don’t know if I should shake hands with you…I hear your hands are in bad shape…”
LBJ is no stranger to strenuous campaigning, going all the way back to the days of his House and Senate races in the ‘30s and 40’s. In his first campaign, in 1937, he campaigned until he collapsed with appendicitis and had to be hospitalized. But he won the race.
Despite his sore hands, his presidential campaign continues today in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Evansville. The President spends the night in Albuquerque, where he will continue the campaign tomorrow.
Follow along on the campaign route here.
LBJ Library photos 432-7-WH64, 432-141-WH64, 432-140-WH64, and 432-217-WH64; images are in the public domain.
October 24, 1964. Today President Johnson visits Memphis, Chattanooga, and Baltimore. In Memphis, President Johnson urges citizens to vote:
“And whether you are Democrats or Republicans, you go in that polling booth and do what you know is right in your heart.”
Follow the campaign with our On the Road with LBJ map, updated daily!
LBJ Library photos 430-2-WH64, 430-82-WH64, 430-86-WH64, 430A-59A-WH64, 430A-127A-WH64; images are public domain.
October 7, 1964. 10:50 AM. In Salisbury, North Carolina, most of the crowds are supportive, but Lynda Bird (LBJ and Lady Bird’s daughter) makes reference in her remarks to some signs that, “I don’t agree with..” Listen: http://youtu.be/scpHfUDqTjM
There is a cosmic irony in the role payed by Vietnam in Lyndon Johnson’s career….What increased the irony was that Vietnam turned against him that group in society whose approbation he most desired–the college students. Nothing bewildered him more that the sieges of the White House by half-naked hippies chanting: “Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids have you killed today?”
He thought he had done everything for them–college loans, scholarships, subsidies–and he considered their conduct nothing but the grossest ingratitude. They were not showing the same concern for his problem that he had shown for their problems–or, at least, that was the way he reasoned.
Oct. 20, 1967. Lady Bird records in her Diary:
“Lyndon said, as he often has, that he would give a piece of his life if Speaker Sam Rayburn would be back with the gavel and he (Lyndon himself) were over in the Senate for just one week. In discussing President Eisenhower, he said: ‘He has paid me back one hundred percent for what I did for him when I was Majority Leader by just trying to be decent.’”
–Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary, New York: Dell Books, 1971, pg 643. Photos: Ike and LBJ in 1955 and LBJ and Rayburn in 1956.
Monday, Sept. 25, 1967. Last night was one of those bleak nights when the shadows take over. We both woke up about 3:30 AM and talked and talked and talked about when and how to make the statement that Lyndon is not going to be a candidate again.
September 6, 1967. LBJ announces that he will nominate Walter Washington to be the first Mayor (Commissioner) of Washington, D.C. After advocates for home-rule for the District, including LBJ, finally won their fight, LBJ offered the mayoralty to Washington. The President enlisted the help of NYC Mayor Lindsay and Lady Bird to help Mr. Washington prepare .
Now LBJ announces his mayoral selection–the first African-American mayor of a large U.S. city:
“Three weeks ago Congress approved a reorganization plan to bring modern government to the Nation’s Capital.
"Even this new system can be only as strong and fair as the men who will lead it….
"We have found a man who will be a strong and authentic voice for the people of the District. His name is Walter Edward Washington.”
Statement by the President on His Intention To Nominate Walter E. Washington and Thomas W. Fletcher as Commissioner of the District of Columbia and Assistant to the Commissioner. September 6, 1967.
Photo C6814-12, Washington at White House with LBJ on 10/3/67, public domain.
August 9, 1967. Senator John Stennis, as head of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, begins hearings regarding the conduct and effectiveness of the bombing campaign over North Vietnam. Unlike Senator Fulbright, Stennis believes that the bombing of North Vietnam has been too limited and needs to be escalated in order to ensure a more decisive victory in the Vietnam War.
–(left to right) Senator John Stennis, President Johnson, Senator Herman Talmadge. LBJ Library photo A3037-21; image is in the public domain.
It’s strange. You feel soothed and happy by the companionship of your daughter and your son-in-law, and the fine young people who are their friends and the members of your staff. And the cool, brisk, shiny beauty of the day. But simultaneously, you are way down and grieved, emotionally wearied by the troubles that you must try to solve–the growing virus of the riots, the rising list of Vietnam casualties, criticism from your own friends, or former friends, in Congress–and most of the complaining is coming from the Democrats.
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