An unpopular and costly war, however, eroded his political ... the Republican party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the candidate to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. The ultra-conservative ...

For Lyndon Johnson ... long since disaffected with L.B.J., who went so far as to declare that it would be in the “national interest” for the Johnson Democratic Party to “be ousted by ...

At the beginning of the election season, President Lyndon Johnson was the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, and as a sitting president, he should have won his party's nomination without ...

Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson stand alone within the Democratic Party’s presidential legacy ... kept in mind that the ...

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 ...