The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights ...

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’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI policies targeted by the president.

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

(See Cover) Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President ... the Hye Post Office immortalizing it as the spot where four-year-old Lyndon Johnson ...

In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...

Jack Kennedy had drained the world’s capacity for unrestrained fascination with the U.S. presidency, and Lyndon Johnson was sure to harvest some initial resentments. But in that enormous ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four ... helping to bring down the administration of President Lyndon Johnson.