Video Description Lyndon Baines Johnson was a complicated man. A Southern politician who made civil rights a focus of his career. A president who helped prevent the expansion of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, but escalated American involvement in Vietnam. This biography analyzes the impression made on modern politics by this forceful and enigmatic figure. The Comprehension Questions are available to download as an RTF file. You can save the file to your desktop and open it in a word processing program.