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, ...

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 ...

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library ... depicting the day he became president (after John F. Kennedy’s assassination) to his oval ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years ... winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific. After six terms in the ...