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Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States and the architect of some of the most significant federal social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, died fifty years ago on Jan ...
In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...
Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. After finishing Kennedy's term, Johnson ran in his own right and won the ...
Johnson at his desk in November 1957 Bettman via Getty Images On August 7, 1957, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson voted yea on the first civil rights bill passed by Congress in 82 years.
Bryan Cranston has answered the eternal question: Just what would President Lyndon B. Johnson (our 36th) feel about President Donald J. Trump, our nation's 45th? Johnson died in 1973. But ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...
Jackie Kennedy stood beside Lyndon B. Johnson as he was inaugurated on Air Force One just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Lyndon B. Johnson insisted that JFK’s wife ...
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he ...
Except for wear and tear, a mod downtown Austin office suite used by President Lyndon Baines Johnson for meals, social encounters and critical meetings, sometimes of global significance ...