Lyndon B. Johnson was vital in passing key pieces of civil rights legislation. Here we look at that legislation and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 1965 (UPI) - Lyndon ... Johnson appealed for peaceful progress toward a society free of racial or other discrimination. "Let us reject any among us who seek to reopen old ...

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 ...

Why President Johnson Signed the Executive Order in 1965 That Trump Rescinded WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took ... of a 60-year old order comes as the racial ...

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 ...

Donors can help increase the life-saving supply for those who are suffering from illnesses that often require blood ...