President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

Before Saturday, the last time a president sent Guard troops in to deal with civil unrest without cooperation from the ...

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. After finishing Kennedy's term, Johnson ran in his own right and won the ...

It has been 60 years since a president has deployed the National Guard without the cooperation of a governor.The last time ...

Kennedy led to chaos at the Democratic Convention and the eventual election of Republican Richard Nixon that November. Lyndon B. Johnson served as President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...

The idea was for visitors to feel like they were standing in LBJ’s shoes, not to give folks the impression that he actually made the prints himself. A staffer called the Lyndon ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...

The first Democrat in Congress to go public urging President Biden to end his reelection campaign this month cited a potent historical precedent — the decision by President Lyndon B. Johnson to ...

It has been 60 years since a president has deployed the National Guard without the cooperation of a governor. The last time ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that authority in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. That incident is now in the ...