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, ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of ... of a number of key Eisenhower measures. In the 1960 campaign, ...

My grandparents loaded me, my aunt, and my cousin into a Winnebago to drive us all down to Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, where we took in every artifact and salty anecdote.

Author David Pietrusza discussed how Lyndon Johnson was selected to be John Kennedy's running mate in the 1960 presidential election. Author David Pietrusza discussed how Lyndon Johnson was ...

The 2024 race will be remembered for its increasingly crude and violent rhetoric — from outbursts to insults, from ...

The rapt attention of two nations and the peoples of two hemispheres centered Saturday on El Paso and its border neighbor, Juarez, as President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...

The agenda harkens back to the days when presidents distinguished policies with slogans like the “New ... This year marks the ...

In a speech to his supporters, former President Donald Trump pledged to usher in a "golden age" for the United States ...

This book will offer a fresh up-to-date balanced overview of Johnson's policies across a range of theatres and issues with the aim of generating a proper understanding of his successes and failures in ...

Nixon on January 20, 1969, Lyndon Johnson returned to Texas, where his political career had begun nearly forty years before. He wrote his memoirs, The Vantage Point, taught students, and attended the ...