Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six months after leaving the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to attend a launch, ...

For more than fifty years, Robert Caro has pursued Lyndon Johnson’s life, creating a monumental biography that reveals how ...

Among the opening lines of CNN’s irresistible “LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy,” none is more striking than the one from a civil-rights activist who says, “We saw the assassination of Kennedy”—JFK, she means ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Rita Braver is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning," where she reports on everything from arts and culture to politics and foreign ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity was ...

Lyndon Johnson was born hard-scrabbling poor in a ramshackle Texas farmhouse, but he soon learned the value of hard work, good luck, quick wits and bold maneuver. After 27 years of service in modestly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Lyndon Johnson's letter to Luci Baines on July 2, 1964. The civil rights movement has always been very personal to us.

Phrase of the day by Lyndon B. Johnson teaches enduring wisdom about personal responsibility, hope, and perseverance. The ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a utopian new vision for the United States under a vastly expanded federal government, which he dubbed the Great Society, on this day in history, Jan. 4, 1965. "We ...

Excerpted from The Thirty-first of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson by Horace Busby. Shortly after midnight, on Sunday, the thirty-first of March, in 1968, the telephone rang at my home ...

Editor’s Note: Martin Luther King, III, is Chairman of the Drum Major Institute, an organization that seeks to inspire individuals to embrace their unique contribution to peace, justice and equity for ...