Harry Middleton and Robert Hardesty, former speechwriters for President Lyndon Johnson, talked about personal conversations and private moments they shared with the former president. They also ...

President Johnson talks by phone from the White House, Jan. 17, 1968. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive On Aug. 27, 1908, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas.

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

Fifty years after the death of Lyndon Baines Johnson, biographer Robert Caro, historian Mark Updegrove, and Luci Baines Johnson (LBJ's youngest daughter) discuss one of the most consequential, yet ...

After the atrocities of Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson called out in 1965 for voting and civil rights , stating “Their cause must be our cause too.” ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson was one of the most astute, effective, and perplexing politicians in modern American history. An "accidental" president but a master legislator, he was determined to "out ...

Luci Baines Johnson delivered impassioned remarks on voting rights and the legacy of her father, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, on Friday at the Texas Democratic Convention in Dallas ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson , also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F ...