Kennedy's vice-presidential running mate in 1960 to help Kennedy overcome religious bias in the South.
When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, LBJ became the 36th President.
He was elected to a full term in 1964.
He worked hard for civil rights, welfare-legislation and tax reduction laws, but his Presidency was overshadowed by the Vietnam war.
As the nation increasingly divided over the Vietnam issue, Johnson announced that he would not seek another term in office.

RICHARD NIXON
Lawyer and Republican public official Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States.
He was considered to be an outstanding foreign policy official and during his administration, Nixon "opened the door to China," while relations with the Soviet Union were also greatly improved.
He further laid the groundwork toward ending the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
Though Nixon denied any wrongdoing, he was forced to resign from office in 1974, when it came to light that he was involved in a cover-up of the Watergate break-in scandal.
Gerald Ford was sworn in as his successor and granted Nixon pardon for any federal crimes he might have committed during his presidency.

GERALD R. FORD
Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States after Richard Nixon's resignation in August 1974 following the Watergate affair.
A member of the U.S. Congress for 25 years, Ford had been appointed Vice President just a year before after Spiro Agnew resigned in the midst of bribery and tax violation allegations.
Ford spent most of his life in Michigan and was an excellent football player.
He was the star center for the University of Michigan football team and later coached football and boxing at Yale University.
Ford earned his law degree at Yale and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
After the war he returned to Michigan and in 1948 was elected into the House of Representatives.
He was re-elected every two years thereafter until his appointment to the Vice Presidency in 1973.

JIMMY (JAMES EARL) CARTER
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and 39th President of the United States, is the son of peanut farmers in Plains, Georgia.
He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, entered the Navy's nuclear submarine program and went on to study nuclear physics at Union College.
When his father died in 1953, Jimmy left the Navy to take over the family business.
He was elected to the Georgia state senate and went on to become governor in 1970.
He defeated President Gerald R. Ford in the 1976 general elections and became America's 39th President as well as the first President from the Deep South since before the Civil War.
Carter played an important negotiating role in the peace process between Egypt and Israel.
His presidency was plagued by the poor state of the economy and the Iran hostage crisis, which lost him the election to Ronald Reagan in 1980.

RONALD WILSON REAGAN
After graduation, Ronald Reagan started his career as a sports announcer in Des Moines, Iowa.
He became a successful film actor in 1937, starring in numerous films.
At first a liberal democrat, Reagan became active in Republican politics in 1964 during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.
He became governor of California in 1966 and was reelected governor in 1970.
In 1980 Reagan successfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination and won a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter.
At the age 73, the former actor became America's 40th and oldest President ever to be elected.
His economic programs led to the largest budget and tax cuts in U.S.