Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who followed the containment policy of stopping the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia, the United States replaced France as the key patron of South Vietnam. This piece of legislation provided for a suspension of literacy tests in counties where voting rates were below a certain threshold, which in practice covered most of the South. his special interests. That same year he participated in the congressional campaign of Democrat Richard Kleberg (son of the owner of the King Ranch, the largest ranch in the continental United States), and upon Klebergs election he accompanied the new congressman to Washington, D.C., in 1931 as his legislative assistant. When Fidel Castro, the Cuban Communist dictator, demanded the return of Guantanamo Naval Base and shut off the water to the installation, Johnson had the Navy create its own water supply. Alan McPherson, "Misled by himself: What the Johnson tapes reveal about the Dominican intervention of 1965. [4], Johnson took office during the Cold War, a prolonged state of very heavily armed tension between the United States and its allies on the one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other. For more information on Johnson's first domestic policy push, read the . By 1967, Congress had given local governments the option to take over the CAAs, which significantly discouraged tendencies toward radicalism within the Community Action Program. Johnson proudly wore the decoration in his lapel for the rest of his life. His frustration was compounded by the apparent disdain with which he was regarded by some prominent members of the Kennedy administrationincluding the presidents brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who later regarded LBJ, with his Texas drawl and crude, occasionally scatological sense of humour, as the usurper of Kennedys Camelot. Millions of Americans raised themselves above the "poverty line," and the percentage under it declined from 20 to 12 percent between 1964 and 1974. In 1934, in San Antonio, Texas, Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, known from childhood as Lady Bird. A recent graduate of the University of Texas, where she had finished near the top of her class, Lady Bird Johnson was a much-needed source of stability in her husbands life as well as a shrewd judge of people. There were new civil disturbances in many cities, but some immediate good came from this tragedy: A bill outlawing racial discrimination in housing had been languishing in Congress, and King's murder renewed momentum for the measure.
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