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 ...

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 ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...

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 ...

Jack Kennedy had drained the world’s capacity for unrestrained fascination with the U.S. presidency, and Lyndon ... character, all sinner or all saint. Probably the best portrayal of Johnson ...

Lady Bird Johnson signed her husband’s hat before gifting it to supporter Pat Morris, 26. Six decades later, Morris brings it ...

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million countrymen ... John Gardner indicated in a year-end appraisal of “the alarming character of our domestic crisis,” the President fell victim to “the ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...