Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

As we've had occasion to point out previously, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson had a complicated relationship with issues of race.Born and raised in the South in the early part of the 20th ...

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 ...

Fifty-two years ago, President Lyndon Johnson warned the nation not to be seduced by proponents of a white backlash. Less than 48 hours before the 1966 midterms, just like today, LBJ saw in the ...

The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson cultivated a close relationship with Israel during his time in office in the '60s. He was the first president to invite an Israeli prime minister, ...

1960: John Kennedy elected President of the United States on November 8, with Lyndon Johnson as Vice President. 1963: John Kennedy is assassinated, November 22. Johnson becomes President of the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson had a button on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office to expressly order this specific drink, but he drank it for a reason.

Thirty-three days later, President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. "CBS Evening News" anchor Jeff Glor takes a look back. Feb 27, 2018 ...

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson passed away on January 22, 1973, just four years after leaving the Oval Office and one of the most tumultuous presidencies in U.S. history.