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, ...

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 ...

With its signature finger-picked guitar and straightforward ... Paxton's lyrics highlighted the duplicity of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who publicly denied escalating the Vietnam War ...

Lyndon Johnson would likely recognize the Republicans today who pledge unflinching loyalty to President Donald Trump, in the hope of climbing the political ladder. Johnson was on the opposite side of ...

"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 ...