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 ...

To Lyndon B. Johnson, ... Foreign Affairs April 7, 1965, ... It would dominate not only his entire foreign policy, but overshadow his ambitious domestic programs. ...

On this day in 1968, as pessimism over U.S. prospects in Vietnam deepened, President Lyndon B. Johnson met with 14 informal advisers. In 1945, some of them had forged a bipartisan foreign policy ...

President Linden B. Johnson announces Great Society program on Tuesday January 5, 1965. The fear of a recession can contribute to the fact of a recession, the President warned, and he had an antidote.

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson prepares for the 1966 State of the Union address with, from left, former aide Richard Goodwin, Jack Valenti and Joseph A. Califano Jr. (The White House/AP) (AP ...

Foreign-policy historians have produced important work in recent years showing how Vietnam was neither an inevitable mistake nor a military operation pushed on an unknowing president by advisers.

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 ...

He was a renowned television correspondent and commentator who also had long ties with Lyndon B. Johnson, including as his ...