Lyndon Baines Johnson was the thirty-sixth president of the United States of America. Prior to becoming president, Lyndon held a seat in the House of Representatives in 1937. He would catch the eyes of Franklin D. Roosevelt as congressman who then helped Lyndon secure key committee assignments in congress. In 1948, Lyndon narrowly won a seat in the Senate and by 1955, he became senate majority. He then ran for and became president in 1963. During his presidency, Lyndon wanted to support the black community and the Civil Right Movement. He passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968 which prohibited discrimination in both public and public housing. Along with these Acts, Lyndon passed the Voting Rights Act which gave voting rights to all Americans and taking away literacy tests. To support the poor community, Lyndon passed the Economic Opportunity Act which provided one billion dollars to aid poverty stricken citizens. Lyndon also had this idea of a "Great Society." His Great Society meant one billion dollars for education support, scholarship funding for schools, MediCARE, and MedicAID. All of these things made up Lyndon's "Great Society." Lyndon also supported the environment and American consumers. To aid these things, Lyndon ordered the government to search out and clean up corporate polluters of the environment, he passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, Highway Safety Act, Wholesome Meat Act, and the Truth in Packaging Act. During Lyndon's presidency, there were Supreme Court cases that changed America. These cases were the Mapp vs Brown case which no longer allowed illegally seized evidence cannot be used in court, Gideon vs Wainright which required the courts to provide legal counsel to the poor, and Miranda vs Arizona which required officers to read suspects their rights before questioning. Lyndon also had to deal with the Vietnam War. He is blamed for how the war was played out and the soliders that fought. The war was fought by the "working class" causing the youth of the country to become antiwar.