Find out more about what this space is all about here. In this memo, the new President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, planned how he would address John F. Kennedy’s cabinet the day after his assassination.

After serving in President Lyndon Johnson’s Cabinet in 1967 and ’68, Clark set up a private law practice in New York in which he championed civil rights, fought racism and the death penalty ...

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.

President Lyndon Johnson meets in the White House Cabinet Room with top military and defense advisers in 1968. Fifty years after his death, LBJ's legacy is growing, writes Patrick Reddy.

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with social justice.

President Lyndon B. Johnson met briefly in Washington last night with top advisers to the Kennedy Administration, cabinet officers, and Congressional leaders of both parties and asked them all for ...

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson laid out a goal of making college more affordable to more Americans. It was part of his Great Society plan, and he signed legislation that set up low-interest ...

President Lyndon Baines Johnson showed how governments can drive innovation. It starts with social safety nets.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Portland for a campaign visit 60 years ago Saturday, throngs of supporters filled the streets from the airport to City Hall.

Exactly 50 years ago, on Jan. 13, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Robert C. Weaver the secretary of the newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development, making him the first ...

In this week's episode of the Presidential podcast, LBJ Presidential Library Director Mark Updegrove helps us examine how Lyndon Johnson worked his will—at times darkly—to get some of the most ...