” Watching Lyndon Johnson “play” older men, Thomas G. Corcoran, the New Deal insider and quite a player of older men himself, was to explain that “He was smiling and deferential, but, hell ...

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson stepped off a plane at Syracuse Hancock Airport. ... Smiling children, beaming parents, a president casually interacting with the crowd.

Lyndon B. Johnson is one of the most consequential US presidents, responsible for passing some of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern history, including the Civil Rights Act of ...

WHEN Lyndon Johnson’s personal effects were trucked out of the White House, they contained at least 500,000 pictures of the President, his family and subordinates, taken by L.B.J.’s ubiquitous ...