American Experience

The Presidents: LBJ (Part 1)

Sworn in after the assassination of JFK, Lyndon Johnson pushed progressive programs like the Civil Rights Act through Congress and won a term as president before the Vietnam War eroded his support.

The Presidents: LBJ (Part 1)

1h 50m

Sworn in after the assassination of JFK, Lyndon Johnson pushed progressive programs like the Civil Rights Act through Congress and won a term as president before the Vietnam War eroded his support.

Previews + Extras

  • LBJ Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    LBJ Preview

    S4 E1 - 31s

    Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat. Witness the events that brought LBJ from Texas to Washington, the White House, and a landslide election in 1964.

  • The Presidents 2016: LBJ: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Presidents 2016: LBJ

    S4 E1 - 30s

    President Lyndon B. Johnson's visions of a Great Society were swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam: the unpopular and costly war eroded his political base and left him an exile within his own White House.

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