Challenges: Lyndon B. Johnson dealt with racial unrest as well as anti-war protests ... Johnson established the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities in 1966.

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, was no fan of FOIA, enacted in 1966. And while he signed it into law, he refused to do so in public. A few years later, Republican President Gerald Ford ...

“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 ...

University of Virginia Press In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson asked John Steinbeck to ... Between December 1966 and May 1967, Steinbeck wrote 86 stories for the newspaper. Those columns ...

Having 90% of the people respond favorably to one of his proposals is not enough for Lyndon Johnson. Last week, as the deadline came for signing up for the full benefits of the new medicare ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...