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, ...

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 ...

On the occasion of President Lyndon Johnson’s birthday, the National Constitution Center looks at 10 interesting facts about one of the most colorful and controversial figures in American history.

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

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 ...

Will Biden have an LBJ moment and bow out? When then-President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not run again in 1968, it rocked American politics. With President Biden facing calls to step aside ...

ALICE, Texas – In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W. Mangan's exclusive interview with a South Texas election judge who detailed certifying false votes for Lyndon B. Johnson nearly three decades ...

The first Democrat in Congress to go public urging President Biden to end his reelection campaign this month cited a potent historical precedent — the decision by President Lyndon B. Johnson to ...

The first Air Force jet designed specifically for US presidents, SAM 26000 carried every president from John F. Kennedy to ...