President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into ... In "The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson," Joseph A. Califano Jr., Johnson's chief domestic adviser, writes, "Life at the ranch would always be ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... President Johnson steadily exerted his influence against segregation and on behalf of ...

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, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

Broadcast of Lyndon B. Johnson's “We Shall Overcome” speech ... But when he sensed the mood and the peril, he came to life. He threw aside the politician’s instinct to temporize and jumped ...

Lyndon Johnson ... 28-year-old Johnson, who was battling for the 10th Congressional District in Central Texas in a special ...

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 ...