LBJ
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Those of ancient lineage may be thinking of the infamous LBJ phone call badgering the head of ABC to get college-football broadcasts for Lady Bird’s TV station.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
LBJ used the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which Congress overwhelmingly supported, to widen the war in Vietnam.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
In November 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson added a monumental new institution to his Great Society: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a “miracle in communication” that LBJ compared to the United States’ first telegraph line.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2025
“You get it, as LBJ would have said, with the bark off.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024
We leave Vista Nueva and walk up the street to the Fast-Mart at the big intersection at LBJ Road.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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