President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included key policies such as federal aid for education, Medicare for older ...

The Great Society at 50: Lyndon B. Johnson’s cultural vision mirrored his domestic one May 20, 2014 More than 11 years ago Music served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Officials closed the aging Lyndon B. Johnson State Park Pool in 2024 because it was leaking 30,000 gallons of water a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson became president after JFK was assassinated. In the White House, he passed bills prohibiting discrimination, but the ongoing Vietnam War created controversy during his presidency.

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States and the architect of some of the most significant federal social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, died fifty years ago on Jan ...

Lyndon Johnson did not initiate American involvement in Vietnam. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy laid the groundwork for U.S. intervention. But the Vietnam War would come to be seen as Johnson's war.

Bill Moyers, a former White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson who became the thoughtful voice of public television, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson cultivated a close relationship with Israel during his time in office in the '60s. He was the first president to invite an Israeli prime minister, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson works on a speech in the White House Cabinet Room on March 30, 1968. He announced the next day that he would not seek or accept the Democratic nomination for reelection.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Portland for a campaign visit 60 years ago Saturday, throngs of supporters filled the streets from the airport to City Hall.