Lyndon Johnson took office after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. He finished Kennedy's term and was further elected to hold his own office of the presidency in 1964. Johnson was responsible for designing the Great Society legislation. He took a lot Kennedy's domestic proposals and turned them in to his own. Lyndon Johnson gets a lot of criticism of his foreign policy, but he is generally a favorite due to his domestic policies.
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