"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B ... In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice President. On ...

president. How did he do it? There is a wonderful photo of Lyndon Johnson and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Johnson is towering over Fortas, smiling and invading his space as the jurist ...

President Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the ... The speech served as his goodbye to the American people, as he did not give a farewell speech.

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed ... On July 28, 1965 Johnson sent 100,000 troops to Vietnam, waging an escalating war. Johnson established the President’s Committee for People with ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

(JTA) — After John F. Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president, LBJ told an Israeli diplomat, “You have lost a very great friend. But you have found a better one.” ...

In the waning days of President Lyndon ... Johnson declared a national day of mourning and praised Kennedy as “a noble and compassionate leader, a good and faithful servant of the people ...

Austin, Texas – As president ... left my tour of the Johnson Library and its archives this month with a question. Sure, it was easy for people in both parties to hate Lyndon Johnson in the ...

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 ...

Further, a relationship in private between an unmarried man and woman is illegal if one of the people involved is a muslim. Visitors should also note that criticism of the Sultan or any member of ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson not just ... tried to give people tools to get out of poverty.

Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American ... of anxiety about the legitimacy of his presidency. People close to Johnson spoke of how he often voiced grave doubts ...