The man behind it was President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who reached the White House amid a national tragedy but grabbed the reins of power quickly and purposefully, bent on transforming the country.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson showed how governments can drive innovation. Only in the U.S. can a boy born in a rural Texas ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

The main academic building of the NTID complex was named to honor former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Public law 89-36, signed by President Johnson on June 8, 1965, created a National Advisory ...

It’s the Texas Hill Country of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Less than 50 miles to the southwest of the President’s ranch, in the quiet town of Comfort, stands one of the least-known monuments in ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...

Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led to Lyndon Johnson assuming the presidency in 1963.