Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

The Johnson Cabinet
Office	Name	Term
President	Lyndon B. Johnson	1963–1969
Vice President	none	1963–1965
	Hubert Humphrey	1965–1969
Secretary of State	Dean Rusk	1963–1969
Secretary of Treasury	C. Douglas Dillon	1963–1965
	Henry H. Fowler	1965–1968
	Joseph W. Barr	1968–1969
Secretary of Defense	Robert McNamara	1963–1968
	Clark M. Clifford	1968–1969
Attorney General	Robert F. Kennedy	1963–1964
	Nicholas Katzenbach	1964–1966
	Ramsey Clark	1966–1969
Postmaster General	John A. Gronouski	1963–1965
	Larry O'Brien	1965–1968
	W. Marvin Watson	1968–1969
Secretary of the Interior	Stewart Lee Udall	1963–1969
Secretary of Agriculture	Orville Lothrop Freeman	1963–1969
Secretary of Commerce	Luther Hartwell Hodges	1963–1965
	John Thomas Connor	1965–1967
	Alexander Buel Trowbridge	1967–1968
	Cyrus Rowlett Smith	1968–1969
Secretary of Labor	W. Willard Wirtz	1963–1969
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Anthony Celebrezze	1963–1965
	John William Gardner	1965–1968
	Wilbur Joseph Cohen	1968–1969
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Robert Clifton Weaver	1966–1968
	Robert Coldwell Wood	1969
Secretary of Transportation	Alan Stephenson Boyd	1967–1969

The presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson began on November 22, 1963, when Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been Vice President of the United States for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency. A Democrat, he ran for and won a full four–year term in the 1964 election, winning by a landslide over Republican opponent Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater.

Johnson, the 36th United States president, expanded upon the New Deal with the Great Society. This set of domestic programs created Medicare and Medicaid, defended civil rights, and promoted federal spending on education, the arts, urban and rural development, public services, and a "War on Poverty". Assisted in part by a growing economy, the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during Johnson's presidency. Civil rights legislation signed by Johnson banned racial discrimination in voting, public facilities, housing, and the workplace. With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the country's immigration system was reformed and all racial origin quotas were removed (replaced by national origin quotas). His presidency marked the high tide of modern liberalism in the United States,

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