Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

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In 1954, Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson proposed an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code that has strangled the free speech and religious liberty of churches and the pastors who lead them ever since.

Whittington had met President Lyndon B. Johnson, but there was no reason for him to call her at home; they’d hardly interacted during her tenure as secretary to one of the late John F.

Born in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so ...

Congress created Medicaid in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” to provide health coverage to children without parental support, their caretakers, the disabled ...

President Lyndon Johnson from 1926-69, oil politics have always been a big part of the business and they remain so now. Odessa oilman Kirk Edwards and Waco economist Ray Perryman say it was a ...

The founding belief behind Head Start, a pillar of Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 war on poverty, was that providing early learning and nutrition to low-income children could raise them out of poverty as ...

Student protests on college campuses were violent. • President Lyndon Johnson said he had enough and declined to run for re-election. And here in Luzerne County, a new school district was ...

It has become one of the great suspense stories in American letters, the nonfiction equivalent of Ahab and the white whale: Robert Caro and his leviathan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Caro, perhaps the ...