President Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress on January 14, 1969, less than a week before the inauguration of his successor, Republican Richard Nixon. The speech ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson ... He can’t either.” Johnson himself says: “People don’t understand ...

Lyndon Johnson was the first president to ... his feelings of anxiety about the legitimacy of his presidency. People close to Johnson spoke of how he often voiced grave doubts about his ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson ... in seeking to persuade people we lose sight of the end goal—where we’re headed with our persuasion. But Johnson knew that vision ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed ... On July 28, 1965 Johnson sent 100,000 troops to Vietnam, waging an escalating war. Johnson established the President’s Committee for People with ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson not just ... tried to give people tools to get out of poverty.

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...