Possibly because of heavy fire or a mechanical failure, ... “Landslide Lyndon. ... and chain smoker, Johnson had a heart attack in the summer of 1955 during his time as Senate Majority Leader.

To read one of Robert Caro's books on Lyndon Johnson, of which this is the third, is to wander into a psychodrama of epic proportions. Rarely has a biographer been engaged in such a long and ...

Lyndon Johnson did not initiate American involvement in Vietnam. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy laid the groundwork for U.S. intervention. But the Vietnam War would come to be seen as Johnson's war.

The epic life of Lyndon Baines Johnson can be measured in many ways, but to me, the relevant unit is pages — 3,500 and counting. This year, a half-century after the wily Texan ascended to the ...

Heavy, slow-moving motions. He walked strangely with his body bent slightly to the right.” A few weeks later, at their second meeting, Lyndon Johnson swiped Jack Kennedy’s unopened New York Times.

opinion Commentary ‘Well, I just feel the torture you’re going through’ Oval Office phone call on this day in 1973 involved the Cotton Bowl, LBJ, and a president’s funeral ...