President Lyndon B. Johnson ... a year. Johnson had as many as 300 telephone lines installed, and a white phone still hangs underneath the head of his dining room table, right next to his ...

In July 1964, the Republican party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the candidate to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. The ultra-conservative Arizona senator, whose radical right-wing rantings ...

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 informed the nation ... South Vietnam join in the negotiations. Johnson asserted that, "What we now expect--what we have a right to expect--are prompt, productive ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Address to Congress on ... Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country -- to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.

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 ...

A couple of days after Lyndon B. Johnson ... When Johnson left the White House, Richard Nixon reportedly "took one look at the elaborate setup and said, 'Get rid of this stuff.'" ...

Joining a slew of other vehicles formerly owned by American presidents that have come to market of late, Lyndon B. Johnson's convertible 1964 Lincoln Continental will be sold at auction on March 3.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights. Examples of Kennedy’s actions are: Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president ...

"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 ... removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Nevertheless, ...