“It’s a mess.” President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the Vietnam situation was trouble when he inherited it following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He also couldn’t wrap his ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... in Viet Nam. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from ...

UniversalImagesGroup//Getty Images Lyndon B. Johnson in talks with Civil Rights ... at the “'Texas White House,” dined with the First Family at their ranch table, occupied a pew in their ...

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, ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...