Lyndon B. Johnson

American politician (1908–1973), 36th President of the United States (1963–1969).

Lyndon Baines Johnson was a Democratic politician from Texas who served as U.S. Senator, Vice President under John F. Kennedy, and then as the 36th President following Kennedy's assassination in 1963. His administration is remembered for the "Great Society" domestic program — including civil-rights legislation, Medicare and Medicare, and anti-poverty and urban-development initiatives — and for the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War. After leaving office in 1969 he retired to Texas, and his presidential papers and memorabilia are housed at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: contemporary. Johnson and R. Buckminster Fuller were contemporaries whose paths crossed through Fuller's "Triton City" floating-city concept, a tetrahedral seaborne community Fuller developed in 1967 with his longtime partner Shoji Sadao during a period of federal interest in experimental urban solutions. Scale models of the Triton City proposal were loaned to President Johnson, and after his presidency those models passed, via the National Archives, into the archives of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas — where they remain a documented artifact of the encounter between Fuller's comprehensive design science and the era's Great Society urban ambitions.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
• Shoji Sadao (Shoji Sadao) — Fuller's design partner and co-author of the Triton City concept

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.