1. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as father's Day.

2. On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law.

3. But it wasn't until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

4. Less than one year later, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, ending segregation practices.http://

5. And he opposed President Lyndon Johnson on the United States'involvement in the Vietnam War.

6. Vice President Lyndon Johnson met Mrs. Kennedy at the airport.

7. Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

8. And it was in 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson officially declared the 3rd Sun-day of June as Father's Day.

9. WALTER CRONKITE: "Vice President Lyndon Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas."

10. During the Vietnam War, U. S. President Lyndon Johnson suggested North and South Vietnam should set aside their differences and collaborate to bring hydropower to the Mekong River delta.

11. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

12. Friends pay their respects to Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon Johnson in the service in Austin, Texas.

13. Supreme Court rules The Times and The Washington Post can publish the material. 1967, President Lyndon Johnson nominates solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to be the first black justice on the U.

14. Mister Loomis believed VOA should report about the war honestly, without censorship from the Administration of President Lyndon Johnson.

15. One is that the problem is only with southerners , who abandoned the Democrats in the 1960s because President Lyndon Johnson signed laws demanding equal rights for blacks.

16. The first Father's Day was observed on June 19,1910 in Washington. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

17. In 1968, a bipartisan congressional vote also supported a surtax when President Lyndon Johnson belatedly asked for taxes to pay for the war in Vietnam.

18. It took a decade of reports, lectures, and political wrangling, but when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968, much of its language came from the Craigheads.

19. He wrote these words as part of a policy brief to help President Lyndon Johnson understand the distressed social conditions in urban ghettos .

20. Robert Caro won a Pulitzer Prize for his third book about former President Lyndon Johnson.

21. This week in our series, we begin the story of President Lyndon Johnson.