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 ...

But Obama has rarely cozied up to the predecessor some argue did more than any other modern president to pave the way for his election as the nation’s first black president: Lyndon B. Johnson.

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 ...

How Obama can win a second term.W ithout presidential leadership in the trenches, there is no chance that Congress, particularly a divided Congress, will step on the third-rail politics of raising ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, Luci Baines Johnson, the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the United States, accompanied her father to Capitol Hill to sign the Voting Rights Act. She asked him why they ...

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 ...

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

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 panelist.