Lyndon Johnson was the first president ... In her journals, Lady Bird Johnson referred to this pattern of behavior as "the same old refrain." Still, as the summer of 1964 approached, there was ...

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965, did my 5-year-old self truly comprehend the ...

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 ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a ... Democrats responded with alarm about the 81-year-old president’s mental acuity and ability to serve a second term.

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, ...

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

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...

"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 ...