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Supporters say diversity initiatives close educational and income gaps born from a history of prejudice. Republican officials ...
said that like Mr. Trump’s revocation of a decades-old order issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson barring discrimination in hiring for government contractors, the stripping of the segregation ...
In Humphrey’s own Amphitheatre head-quarters, a poster of his smiling face was ... every politician from Lyndon Johnson to Rockefeller has stopped there) is so unusual that it is headlined ...
Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird ... No, this doesn’t mean that Buchanan filled the Oval Office with Pink Floyd posters and inflatable furniture. It means that he was quite literally a ...
Born in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so ...
The exhibit shows how much Johnson used his swimming pool to shape American history.
A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag. The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five ...
On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.
President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Joel with the Medal of Honor in 1967, making him the first living Black person to receive the award since the Spanish-American War. It is considered the ...
And Lyndon B. Johnson called his portrait the "ugliest thing I ever saw." Peter Hurd, a successful artist who painted the work, dismissed the president's "very damn rude" behavior in his comments to ...
A year after the assassination, the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson established to investigate, concluded that Oswald acted alone and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy.