Zola Hoehn: The Presidents Calling

I listened to LBJ addressing congress after the assassination of President Kennedy. After listening to this I feel like despite the situation in which LBJ was in, he handled it quite well. I thought it was interesting how he became president within two hours of the assassination and within that time had to determine what his goals were going to be for his presidency. I thought he did a good job continuing President Kennedy’s goals and what he was working on before he was killed such as the wars that the United States was involved in along with fighting poverty.  I think he also did a good job calming the nation or at least providing a similar option as they would have had with Kennedy. I think LBJ spoke with great sorrow but he still proved himself in the way that he could be up to the enormous task of taking over the presidency from someone who was assassinated.