When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965, did my 5-year-old self truly comprehend the ...

Head Start program directors and families are deeply concerned over a Trump administration proposal to cut its funding ...

Salinas’ Hill Country landscapes were a favorite of Lady Bird and President Lyndon B. Johnson. During his presidency, Lyndon ...

Lyndon Johnson hired Geri Whittington as his secretary because she was the most qualified. She was also the first Black woman ...

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

But Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, did things differently. Rather than plan elaborate fine-dining meals served on precious China, he impressed people by keeping true ...

At the beginning of 1968, no one could have predicted the reception that would greet President Lyndon Baines Johnson as he entered St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan on the afternoon of Thursday ...

Born in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so ...

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great Society” — but the shadow of Vietnam loomed over the White House.