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.

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; Johnson ran in his own right in 1964, winning in a landslide.

Lyndon B. Johnson is one of the most consequential US presidents, responsible for passing some of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern history, including the Civil Rights Act of ...

Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson at his desk in November 1957 Bettman via Getty Images On August 7, 1957, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson voted yea on the first civil rights bill ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses NASA employees at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas on March 1, 1968. The center would be renamed for Johnson on Feb. 19, 1973, a month after the ...

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 ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, left an indelible mark on American history. This documentary explores his life, from his childhood to his presidency and ultimately, ...

"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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a rough-and-tumble Texan, simultaneously held the Eastern establishment in contempt and understood the need to cultivate its leaders.