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.

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.

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Turning now to “LBJ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before becoming the 36th president Johnson taught at an elementary school in Texas. LBJ was elected to the U.S ...

It is, admittedly, weird to imagine Lyndon B. Johnson liking Fresca. He was a tall, tough-as-shoe-leather senator from Texas, with a penchant for bullying his colleagues into toeing the party line ...

Lyndon B. Johnson insisted that JFK’s wife Jackie Kennedy accompany him back to Washington hours after her husband's assassination on November 22, 1963.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Born near ...

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.

Following the historic Selma march in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to pass legislation ensuring equal voting rights for African Americans Following the historic Selma march in ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. In 1943, Lady Bird Johnson purchased a small radio station in Austin, Texas for $17,500.

In this Aug. 10, 1964 file photo, President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Joint Resolution for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, also known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ...

Herbert Gordon: Immediately after taking the oak Lyndon B. Johnson said simply. “now let's get air bound,” and the 36th President of the United States was headed towards the White House, ...