Biden's domestic agenda was the most progressive of any president since Lyndon Johnson. But it was entwined with a foreign policy that leaves his legacy drowned in blood.

Drawing on recently declassified documents as well as some of the latest published research,The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson provides a fresh general ac ...

Presidential candidate Richard Nixon meets with Lyndon Johnson at the White House, July 26, 1968 / LBJ Library Who were the best and worst presidents in American history? It's the sort of barstool ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with social justice.

Assessing morals in foreign policy is difficult because we have to weigh intentions, means and consequences in different circumstances. But as history shows, morals do matter, so we need to learn ...

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 federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

Most people don't realize how important Lyndon B. Johnson was to the U.S. space program. Here's a look at LBJ's space legacy, 50 years after his death.

To understand how Obama’s preoccupation with the domestic arena affects his foreign policy, it is helpful to look back on one of his predecessors in the Oval Office: Lyndon Johnson.

Jeff Shesol writes about the outsized role that Lyndon B. Johnson, first as the Senate Majority Leader and then as John F. Kennedy’s Vice-President, played in marshalling the U.S. government’s ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, who as a senator had pressed a reluctant Dwight D. Eisenhower to treat space travel as a national security issue, supported the Kennedy initiative and was so great an advocate ...