Jazz great Ethel Ennis sang the national anthem. Jimmy Carter, 1977: Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, a Holocaust survivor, ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...

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, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million ... s hopes of ever succeeding Johnson on his own. Democrats abandoned the President in droves, forming Dump-L.B.J. movements or rallying behind Gene McCarthy ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity ...

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 houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...

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 ...

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 ...