In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a ...

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 ...

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 barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

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 ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...

"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 ...