"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 ...

LBJ is a two-part television documentary film about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. The American Experience documentary program recounts Johnson's life from his ...

On March 31, 1968, at 9:00 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson sat behind the large wooden desk he had used since his days in the Senate and addressed the American people from the Oval Office.

When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, ... “We will build a Great Society,” he told a gathering at Ohio University in Athens, ...

As President, Johnson began to push for what he called “The Great Society.” With the backing of Congress Johnson’s “Great Society” resulted in the passing of prominent programs including ...

On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before 70,000 people in the University of Michigan stadium and delivered his now-famous commencement address in which he spoke of a new beginning ...

On March 31, 1968, at 9:00 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson sat behind the large wooden desk he had used since his days in the Senate and addressed the American people from the Oval Office.

MAN OF THE YEAR (See Cover) There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear ...

President Lyndon Johnson speaking about the Great Society on the College Green of Ohio University in 1964. (Photo Provided) They were part of a massive set of legislation that was designed to ...

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; Johnson ran in his own right in 1964, winning in a landslide.

After the atrocities of Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson called out in 1965 for voting and civil rights , stating “Their cause must be our cause too.” ...