Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six months after leaving the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to attend a launch, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964 — "the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction," as the National ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a utopian new vision for the United States under a vastly expanded federal government, which he dubbed the Great Society, on this day in history, Jan. 4, 1965. "We ...

Renovations are complete on the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in downtown Austin. The library's fourth-floor exhibit is ready to reopen Saturday, March 7.

President Lyndon B. Johnson passed away on January 22, 1973, just four years after leaving the Oval Office and one of the most tumultuous presidencies in U.S. history. To mark the 50th anniversary of ...

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 ...

Ever wary of the Eastern establishment, President Johnson needed advice before a formal luncheon at The New York Times in 1964. By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores ...

The daughters of former President Lyndon B. Johnson have praised President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the race, calling him a “patriot without peer.” Johnson exited his race for reelection as he was ...

Xhloe and Natasha will present A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First, a farcical exploration of American boyhood influenced by the Vietnam War during the 1960s. The show, ...