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, ...
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
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 ...
When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...
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 ...
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights ...
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...
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.