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, the ...

Lyndon B. Johnson was vital in passing key pieces of civil rights legislation. Here we look at that legislation and everything he contributed to the movement. Judge says dismantling of USAID was ...

"Oh, I think someone is playing with me," Gerri Whittington cooed into the phone after the caller identified himself as "the president." In 1963, Whittington's skepticism was well-founded.

"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 ...