{"id":4053,"date":"2017-09-10T19:38:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2017-09-13T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T16:49:18","slug":"president-johnson-an-introduction-to-lbj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/president-johnson-an-introduction-to-lbj\/","title":{"rendered":"President Johnson – An Introduction to “LBJ”"},"content":{"rendered":"

LBJ: An Introduction\"Lyndon<\/a><\/strong>
\nIn this engaging task, students are given an overview of LBJ and his famous ‘treatment’, along with video clip links and an extract from an acclaimed biography of the President. From this they are encouraged to identify five key aspects of the “Johnson Treatment” and substantiate each with an extract from the reading.<\/p>\n

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-73) had been JFKs vice-president, appointed to the position because he was a masterful manager of congress with a remarkable ability to get things done. By turns brash, charming, coarse and cloying, he was a fascinatingly complex, larger-than life figure. In many ways he could not have been more different to Kennedy, a suave millionaire playboy with whom he had a predictably prickly relationship: Johnson, a devoted family man, came from a poor background, never lost his thick Texas drawl, and was very insecure about his lack of formal education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LBJ: An Introduction In this engaging task, students are given an overview of LBJ and his famous ‘treatment’, along with video clip links and an extract from an acclaimed biography of the President. From this they are encouraged to identify five key aspects of the “Johnson Treatment” and substantiate each with an extract from the… <\/p>\n

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