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 ...

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

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 ...

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 ...