Major Events of Presidency:
- Johnson launches war on poverty
- Congress passes tax cut
- "Freedom summer" campaign in Mississippi
- Congress passes Civil Rights Act
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed
- United States drops first bombs on Vietnam
- Free Speech movement begins at UC Berkeley
- Medicare enacted
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed
- Selma Campaigns for voting rights
- Watts Riots
- Malcolm X assassinated
- Autobiography of Malcolm X published
- Voting Rights Act passed
- United States intervenes in Dominican Republic
- American combat troops sent to Vietnam
- Antiwar acts begin on university campuses
- Immigration Reform Act passed
- United Farm Workers Strike
- Richard Viguerie launches conservative direct-mail operations
- Medicaid enacted
- Martin Luther King Jr. leads Chicago campaign
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearings on Vietnam
- National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
- Miranda v. Arizona expands rights of accused
- Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
- Johnson requests tax increase
- Race riot breaks out in Detroit
- Antiwar protesters march on Pentagon
- Six-Day War between Isreal and Arabs
- Viet Cong Launch Tet Offensive
- Johnson withdraws from presidential race
- Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated, Robert Kennedy's assassination follows
- Following the two assassinations, racial violence breaks out in American cities
- Demonstrators clash with police at democratic national convention
- George Wallace launched third-party presidential campaign
- Campus riots at Columbia University and elsewhere
- Antiwar "mobilization" day
- American Indian Movement (AIM) launched