President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way ... sites from Mount Vernon to LBJ's ranch. Johnson's Central Texas ranch was his refuge. He flew to Hill Country outside Johnson City 74 ...

Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson attending Commencement Exercises at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964. LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton. Johnson describes his domestic agenda and vision for ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

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, ...

Lyndon Johnson would ... the political ladder. Johnson was on the opposite side of Trump Republicanism, but 88 years ago this week, he hit the campaign trail in his first run for Congress with ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with social justice.

One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... in Viet Nam. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from ...