The Republican candidate for vice president was William Miller, a congressman from New York State.
Americans voted in November of nineteen sixty-four. Lyndon Johnson won more than sixty percent of the popular vote. Still he had hoped for an even bigger victory. He wanted proof that Americans were voting for him, and not the shadow of John Kennedy.
In his inaugural speech, Johnson said his Great Society would never be finished -- it would keep growing and improving.
LYNDON JOHNSON: “I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming -- always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting and trying again -- but always trying and always gaining."
In nineteen sixty-five, he won congressional approval of Medicare, a health insurance program for Americans age sixty-five and older. President Harry Truman had called for such a plan twenty years earlier. Johnson presented Truman and his wife, Bess, with Medicare cards numbers one and two. Under Johnson, Congress also approved Medicaid, a health care program for the poor and disabled.
In nineteen sixty-seven, President Johnson appointed the nation's first black justice to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall.
ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATORS: “Hell no, we won’t go!”
Around the country, President Johnson faced growing opposition to the war in Vietnam. More and more American troops were dying.
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