Lyndon Johnson hired Geri Whittington as his secretary because she was the most qualified. She was also the first Black woman ...

Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, according to the White House Historical Association. The Resolute Desk was first used in the Oval Office by John F Kennedy in 1961. After JFK’s ...

Former President John F. Kennedy was the first president to use the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. When former President Lyndon B. Johnson took office in 1963, he requested another desk for the ...

It was rumored to have been installed by Lyndon B. Johnson, who arranged for the button and the wooden box it was placed in so that he could be warned of the first lady's visit to the Oval Office.

President Trump's latest DEI directive repeals an executive order on nondiscrimination signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, which explicitly prohibited segregated facilities in federal ...