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 ...

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, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Address to Congress on Voting Rights; U.S. Capitol, Washington, LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, members of the Congress ...

"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 ...

Johnson Hospital. Read full article: This Hospital Farm is Helping Grow a Healthy Community There is a farm on the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital campus that is serving the community by providing ...