In this Aug. 10, 1964 file photo, President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Joint Resolution for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, also known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ...

In search of the real Lyndon Baines Johnson 08:58. Forty-six years ago tomorrow, millions of Americans heard a stunning televised announcement by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Even as they stress his civil-rights legacy, popular portrayals ignore the issue that loomed largest over Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency: the Vietnam War.

In the White House, US President Lyndon Johnson (1908 - 1973) meets with Civil Rights leaders, from left, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Executive Secretary Roy ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. In 1943, Lady Bird Johnson purchased a small radio station in Austin, Texas for $17,500.

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States and the architect of some of the most significant federal social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, died fifty years ago on Jan ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.