And Lyndon B. Johnson called his portrait the "ugliest thing I ever saw." Peter Hurd, a successful artist who painted the ...

“He later opted for another portrait by John Sargent Singer.” Over half a century later, President Lyndon Johnson similarly felt as though he’d been done dirty by a portrait artist. In ...

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 ...