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President’s allies take the lead to set up yearlong celebrations around July 4, 2026, bringing in conservative groups and staff from campaign rallies.
A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First, written, directed and performed by Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland opens tonight, running through June 29, 2025 for 23 performances in ...
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.
SoHo Playhouse will present the return engagement of A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First, which begins previews tonight! Learn more here!
Are those really LBJ’s footprints in concrete at Minnehaha Falls? President Lyndon B. Johnson visited the Minneapolis waterfall in 1964.
Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great Society” — but the shadow of Vietnam loomed over the White House. What ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson's triumph and tragedyBorn in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act ...
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 ...
By revoking Johnson's 1965 executive order, the president has undone a key part of the Civil Rights Era.
Napalm? The draft?” For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million countrymen, the year produced an unprecedented crop of complaints, based largely on the two great crises that came into confluence.
MAN OF THE YEAR (See Cover) There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear ...