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, ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Robert Caro's ...

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 ...