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The life and times of LBJ 07:39. It is an indelible image: aboard Air Force One, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's tragic assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as president ...
The conversation focused on President Lyndon Johnson’s foreign policy and the recent book, LBJ’s America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Image: U.S. Air Force. Get the Briefing from ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson had a button on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office to expressly order this specific drink, but he drank it for a reason.
In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...
Work-life balance is understandably unattainable for presidents, and Johnson was no exception. Haller writes that he liked to start his day's work at 6 a.m.—from his bed.
Lyndon Johnson would likely recognize the Republicans today who pledge unflinching loyalty to President Donald Trump, in the ...
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 ...
MAN OF THE YEAR (See Cover) 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 ...
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 ...
Trump’s attacks on higher education come 75 years after Lyndon B. Johnson set out to transform the sector.
Biden's Democratic critics have compared his achievements to that of President Lyndon B. Johnson, while noting LBJ had bowed out in the best interests of the party and the country and provided a ...