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, ...

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, the ...

At the moment, Johnson can hardly consider himself entrenched. The dump L.B.J. Democrats ... And the campaign should be a spectacle to behold. If there is one thing that Lyndon Johnson enjoys ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio ... the CNN Facebook Democratic Debate in Las Vegas. This intense campaign waged in the moment to determine the nation's future also ...

"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 ... With rare skill he obtained passage ...

President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights. Examples of Kennedy’s actions are: Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has been on a roll—stacking ... Hubert Humphrey faced that challenge in 1968 after President Lyndon Johnson decided to forego reelection largely because ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

President Donald Trump revoked executive order 11246, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. Johnson’s order required federal contractors to ensure equal opportunity for minorities in ...