In this memo, the new President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, planned how he would address John F. Kennedy’s cabinet the day after his assassination. Traditionally, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Only in the U.S. can a boy born in a rural Texas farmhouse with no electricity or running water one day grow up to hold the most powerful office in the world. But President Lyndon Baines Johnson ...

NEW YORK — W. Marvin Watson, a World War II combat veteran who ran Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House with the protective instincts of a loyalist, the privileged power of a confidant, and 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.

President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 1965, to outline his proposals for voting rights for all citizens.