“It’s a mess.” President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the Vietnam situation was trouble when he inherited it following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He also couldn’t wrap his ...

In 1954, Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson proposed an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code that has strangled the free speech and religious liberty of churches and the pastors who lead them ever since.

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 ...

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.

The Trump administration has proposed fully eliminating Head Start, the program created during Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty” that offers free child care to over 1 million low-income parents.

Lyndon Johnson, seeking lower interest rates to fund the Vietnam War and Great Society programs, summoned the Fed chair, William McChesney Martin, to his Texas ranch to pressure him into loosening ...

James A. Rhodes and received greetings from President Lyndon Johnson. Check out the slideshow with this story to for historic photos of Mock and her plane.

Johnson's new commercial for March Madness features a catchy song that people can't get out of their heads. As the tournament unfolds, here is what to know about Johnson's budding rap career.

It has become one of the great suspense stories in American letters, the nonfiction equivalent of Ahab and the white whale: Robert Caro and his leviathan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Caro, perhaps the ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. When President Lyndon Johnson signed ...