It was Dick Russell who swung all his great Senate weight to make Lyndon Baines Johnson the Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate in 1953. ... Lyndon Johnson left his office at a lope, ...

After the Senate call-buzzers had stopped one noon last week, a visiting minister delivered a timely invocation. ... THE CONGRESS: Lyndon at the Launching Pad. 4 ...

During the swearing-in ceremonies in the Senate, Lyndon Baines Johnson, as the duly elected Senator from Texas, went through the formality of taking the oath of office. Moments later, as the duly ...

Bill Moyers, a key member of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's inner circle and later a guiding force in American ...

In 1954, Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson proposed an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code that has strangled the free speech and religious liberty of churches and the pastors who lead them ever since.

Means of Ascent commences in the aftermath of Johnson's failed 194 campaign for the United States Senate, and continues through his election to that office in 1948.

So for the first time in his life, ambition and compassion coincide. To watch Lyndon Johnson, as Senate majority leader, pass that civil rights bill....You say, this is impossible, no one can do this.

Inside that office, as the aide well knew, was Lyndon Baines Johnson, probably at that very moment speaking softly into a green telephone. Inevitably, a new order was being established.

On March 31, 1968, at 9:00 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson sat behind the large wooden desk he had used since his days in the Senate and addressed the American people from the Oval Office.