JTA's Ron Kampeas describes the U.S.-Israel friendship through portraits of all 13 presidents ... Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president, LBJ told an Israeli diplomat ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson not just as a cabinet member, but as the engineer of his ambitious agenda of ...

If anything, his stock has risen as a result of his feud with Lyndon Johnson, whose civil rights policies are not popular in Arkansas. Said a Little Rock businessman last week: “Bill has laid ...