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

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...

Broadcast of Lyndon B. Johnson's “We Shall Overcome” speech, given during the civil-rights movement shortly after events in Selma, Alabama. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age ...

April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about Lyndon Johnson's first speech to Congress after becoming president in 1963. This clip presents two excerpts ...

Clip #3: Truman as a Model (2:25). When would Lyndon Johnson first “address Congress?” What were Johnson’s “objectives” in his first speech to Congress? Did Johnson use Harry Truman’s ...

OPINION- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s father swept into Lawrence, Kansas, 57 years ago this month to give a campaign speech. It was just his third day as a 1968 presidential ...

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 ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...