Lyndon B. Johnson became president after JFK was assassinated. In the White House, he passed bills prohibiting discrimination, but the ongoing Vietnam War created controversy during his presidency.

Through television, Moyers connected Americans with poets at street level, an especially valuable gift since few of us get to ...

More than 50 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked Americans by announcing that he would not seek a second full term as president.

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. In 1943, Lady Bird Johnson purchased a small radio station in Austin, Texas for $17,500.

Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...

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.

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.

Arriving at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Monday President Biden hopes to revisit the mountaintop of LBJ’s greatest achievement: passage of the 1964 Civil Rights ...

On March 15th, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke before Congress, calling for legislation to protect the voting rights of all Americans. Watch CBS News coverage from that day.

By general agreement, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson can outtalk any other ten Texans with one tongue tied behind his cheek—and last week, deep in the heart of Africa, he applied his ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...