For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million ... s hopes of ever succeeding Johnson on his own. Democrats abandoned the President in droves, forming Dump-L.B.J. movements or rallying behind Gene McCarthy ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected ...

April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Address to Congress on ... We must preserve the right of free speech and the right of free assembly. But the right of free speech does not carry with it ...

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 ...

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 ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...