President Barack Obama paid tribute Thursday to President Lyndon B. Johnson and his role in expanding civil rights, vowing to honor that legacy by using his power to fight for what he believes in.

President Barack Obama paid homage Thursday to Lyndon B. Johnson as a white southerner who, thrust into the Oval Office a half century ago, seized history to enact laws that dismantled legal ...

Obama will visit Johnson's presidential library in Austin, Texas, to remedy what some Johnson admirers have described as a 'pattern of omission.' Obama to honor Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights ...

Lyndon B. Johnson was an effective policymaker but failed to protect his legacy—much in the same way Obama’s is being toppled today. Skip to content Site Navigation ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas was lauded by four successor presidents as a Lincoln-esque groundbreaker for civil rights, but President Barack Obama also noted that Johnson also had long ...

Honoring the legacy of a former president he’s barely mentioned previously, President Barack Obama on Thursday cast Lyndon B. Johnson’s push to end legal segregation as a factor in his own ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson reached to shake hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. ( File - The Associated Press ) President Barack Obama reads ...

Policy changes facing President-elect Barack Obama are similar to those faced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson, according to panelists. By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert - Daily Texan 12/05/2008 ...

The link between Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama. By CARY CLACK Aug 28, 2008. On Aug. 6, 1965, Luci Baines Johnson, the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the United States, ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day ...