In 1965, opponents of President Lyndon Baines Johnson referred to him as King Lyndon I.

For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and

the powerful society, but upward to the great society.

Once being sworn in as President after the assassination of JFK in 1963, Johnson had

launched a set of programs called the Great Society.

It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.

He signed the Heart Cellar Immigration Act, created Medicaid and Medicare.

The integration leader, Martin Luther King, receives his pay.

A gift he said he would charge.

It was in this administration that protest led by Martin Luther King and DC and Enselma

resulted in two pieces of the most important legislation of our country, the Civil Rights

Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

All of this, while navigating our involvement in Vietnam.

The main purpose of the operation was to clear the area of an estimated battalion of Viet

Kong.

Democrats held 289 House seats and 68 Senate seats.

Political minds declared the Republican Party officially dead.

How can you unseat a king?

Milk.

The Great Society was no match for the price of milk.

In 1966, small protests in Baltimore and Denver caught the eye of the Republican National

Committee, which claimed Johnson's Great Society programs in America's involvement in Vietnam

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