STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Staten Island on this date just over a half century ago, the affair proved both joyful and ominous on the eve of anti-war protests and ...
This is the digitized version of an article that appeared in the Thursday Oct. 13, 1966, edition of the Staten Island Advance highlighting the day President Lyndon B. Johnson came to Staten Island.
THE conversation was in the tiny anteroom just off the formal Oval Office. It is a place where Lyndon B. Johnson likes to relax with a cool drink for an hour or two during his long working day. It was ...
Fifty years ago, the average cost of a new home was $23,300. Gas averaged around 32 cents per gallon, a dozen eggs cost 60 cents and a gallon of milk was a steep 99 cents. Lyndon Johnson was the ...
Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...
Few people knew Lyndon Johnson better than Tom Johnson. No relation, the latter was a reporter with the Macon Telegraph in ...
National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Rita Braver is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning," where she reports on everything from arts and culture to politics and foreign ...
No section of Lyndon Johnson’s 1966 Civil Rights Bill has raised more of a ruckus than Title IV, the wide-ranging ban on racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. One reason is that ...