"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... President Johnson steadily exerted his influence against segregation and on behalf of ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into ... In "The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson," Joseph A. Califano Jr., Johnson's chief domestic adviser, writes, "Life at the ranch would always be ...

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, ...

Lyndon B. Johnson was vital in passing key pieces of civil rights legislation. Here we look at that legislation and ...

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 ...