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, ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon ... punching.” Johnson, too, has tasted some frustration. Before the election, he phoned ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio ... the CNN Facebook Democratic Debate in Las Vegas. This intense campaign waged in the moment to determine the nation's future also ...

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, the ...

At the moment, Johnson can hardly consider himself entrenched. The dump L.B.J. Democrats ... And the campaign should be a spectacle to behold. If there is one thing that Lyndon Johnson enjoys ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created ... and has only two months between election day and inauguration day to settle his affairs. And to demand that a president sell ...

Presidents eligible to seek another term have withdrawn their names before. But not this far into an election year.

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"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of ... of a number of key Eisenhower measures. In the 1960 campaign, ...

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 ...