If you don’t like the legacy of an American president, just wait awhile and it will likely change. For that is the iron law of presidential reputations: With rare exceptions, they fluctuate over time.

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AUSTIN, Texas — A black granite panel made for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is now one of the first artifacts visitors see at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. The panel ...

David Kleinberg didn’t have to rely on his memory to prepare his new solo theater piece, which details his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam in 1966. “We were all journalists, so I ...

Few people knew Lyndon Johnson better than Tom Johnson. No relation, the latter was a reporter with the Macon Telegraph in ...

Arriving at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Monday President Biden hopes to revisit the mountaintop of LBJ’s greatest achievement: passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in Cabinet Room meeting. Credit: Yoichi Okamoto/U.S. National Archives and Records Administration A few months ago I had one of my ...

You might walk right past it. The single dark panel from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — the only one permanently installed outside of Washington, D.C. — now ...