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He became president after the assassination of John F. He also served as the 37th vice president from to Johnson's administration passed many major laws that made substantial changes in civil rights, health care, welfare, and education. He was strongly criticized for his foreign policy, especially for American involvement in the Vietnam War.

He was the eldest of five children born to Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. Johnson grew up poor, with his father losing a great deal of money. Biographer Robert Caro described him as being raised "in a land without electricity, where the soil was so rocky that it was hard to earn a living from it.

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Johnson graduated in from Johnson City High School. The college years refined his skills of persuasion and political organization. For nine months, from to , Johnson paused his studies to teach Mexican—American children at the segregated Welhausen School in Cotulla , 90 miles km south of San Antonio. The job helped him to save money to complete his education, and he graduated in with a Bachelor of Science in history and his certificate of qualification as a high school teacher.

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

Johnson was called to active duty three days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December He received the Silver Star for gallantry in action.