He had a large majority of Democrats in Congress -apex
He won by a landslide after becoming president by accident when Kennedy was killed. He became "the people's choice" and it must have given him confidence to push his programs through Congress in the belief that he had the people behind him
It was the first election of a U.S. President whose ancestry is half European/ half African. It was the first time that a Democratic presidential candidate received more than 50% of the nationwide popular votes since Jimmy Carter did in 1976, and it was the first time that a Democratic presidential candidate both received more than 50% of the nationwide popular votes and carried more than 50% of the states since Lyndon Johnson did in 1964. It was also the first U.S. presidential election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President was a candidate.
The 1964 presidential election was won by one Lyndon B. Johnson, who had taken over in the presidency when Kennedy was assassinated. Barry Goldwater was the other major candidate. He carried six states, and lost by quite a wide margin.
President Eisenhower 1953 -1961The 34th President of the United States was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower was in office from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961.
Johnson had a large majority of Democrats in Congress after the 1964 election.
President Lyndon B. Johnson (D) and Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona).
He had a large majority of Democrats in Congress -apex
There was no vice-president under Johnson until after the next election in 1964. At that time, Hubert Humphreys became vice-president.
Election Year in Averagetown - 1964 was released on: USA: 18 June 1964
Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) and Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona).
Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 presidential election defeating Barry Goldwater. In the 1964 presidential election the popular vote totals were Johnson 43,129,566 and Goldwater 27,178,188. The largest percentage of popular votes in a presidential election were won by Lyndon Johnson 61.05% in 1964, Franklin Roosevelt 60.80% in 1936, Richard Nixon 60.67% in 1972, and Warren Harding 60.32% in 1920.
Incumbent President Dwight Eisenhower won reelection in the 1956 presidential election defeating Adlai Stevenson. John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election defeating Richard Nixon. Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 presidential election defeating Barry Goldwater.
Hubert H. Humphrey served as Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president from 1965 to 1969.
As president John Kennedy won the 1960 election, and was assassinated during his first term in office the question of Kennedy loosing an election does not rise.
Johnson had a large majority of Democrats in Congress after the 1964 election.
Lyndon B. Johnson became president in 1963 because John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He won the 1964 election against Goldwater.