*Party division totals are based on election day results.
The House Democratic majority grew by 36 seats, Senate Democrats retained their two-thirds’ majority, and Lyndon Johnson won election to his first full presidential term in the landslide 1964 elections. The 89th Congress (1965–1967) passed a huge burst of domestic legislation that protected voting rights, promoted education, cared for the elderly, helped clean up the water and the air, promoted the arts and humanities, advanced automobile and highway safety, and extended a helping hand to the economically disadvantaged. President Johnson dubbed this ambitious agenda “The Great Society.”
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