JTA's Ron Kampeas describes the U.S.-Israel friendship through portraits of all 13 presidents ... Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president, LBJ told an Israeli diplomat ...
Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...
Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...