Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

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 ...

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, ...

Today, we look at Robert Caro's ongoing biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Want to know about the "trap baited with grass" that lured 19th-century cattle ranchers to the Hill Country?

Whittington had met President Lyndon B. Johnson, but there was no reason for him to call her at home; they’d hardly interacted during her tenure as secretary to one of the late John F.

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 ...

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great Society” — but the shadow of Vietnam loomed over the White House.