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

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

Is approval rating? 70%.

But upward to the great society.

Since 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.

Integration leader Martin Luther King receives his pay. A gift he said he would charge.

It was in this administration that protests 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 VSCOM.

Democrats held 289 house seats and 68 Senate seats. Political minds declared the Republican Party officially dead.

How can you unseat a king?

That's right, Hillary. A gambling casino in Reno to walk into the grocery store in Prince George's County.

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 were to blame for rising grocery costs.

Republican candidates for office latched onto the idea. They brought giant grocery carts to campaign events. They printed out oversized price tags showcasing rising food costs.

They pushed inflation hard. This was the stage for the 1966 midterm election.

Biggest shot in the arm for the American Republican Party, the election of Ronald Reagan as governor of California. Most of the polling stations from West to East showed us swing away from President Johnson's Democratic Party.

So what happened?

What happened? It was huge. One of the biggest losses to the Democratic Party in the history of elections. Republicans gained 47 house seats, three Senate seats, eight governorships, 557 state legislature seats.

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