Johnson in 1924, the year he graduated from
high school

  
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) 

   

Lyndon Johnson was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969) He
succeeded to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy
on November 22, 1963.

Johnson is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices
of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President.

President  Johnson holds his dog Her by the ears on the White
House lawn. On the left is Johnson’s other dog, Him. The picture
raised criticism from dog lovers in 1964. 

In 1968, LBJ announced he would not run again for the presidency.

Mariner 2 was the first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program and
the first space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter. It passed
within 22,000 miles of Venus on December 14, 1962.The spacecraft was
designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute
of Technology.

President Kennedy (far right) is presented with a model of Mariner 2

Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

                        
                                          Hawaii’s state quarter