Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

Democrats abandoned the President in droves, forming Dump-L.B.J. movements or rallying ... that goes wrong. .” The fact is that Lyndon Johnson has made a greater effort than any of his recent ...

The continuing and perennial need for DEI programs in schools and industry lays bare the lie that the United States stands as ...

Kennedy was killed by Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon ... The plan would allow Johnson to become president and then refrain from seeking a second term, setting the stage for Nixon to succeed ...

Mr. Trump's Jan. 21 order — "Ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity" — revokes the Equal ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four ... helping to bring down the administration of President Lyndon Johnson.