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While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.
On March 31, 1968, at 9:00 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson sat behind the large wooden desk he had used since his days in the Senate and addressed the American people from the Oval Office. His speech ...
Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...
The comprehensive biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ted reviews the four-volume (and counting) biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson by author Robert A. Caro. Inside the Cover is available ...
Well-known historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s newest book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, is based on 300 file boxes her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin, a gifted ...
The first Democrat in Congress to go public urging President Biden to end his reelection campaign this month cited a potent historical precedent — the decision by President Lyndon B. Johnson to ...
CHICAGO — Granted, the warmth in which President Joe Biden was enveloped by his party when he gave his valedictory here on Monday night was partly a measure of its relief that he is not running again.