In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...

Description. This lesson explores the first 100 days of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. The lesson, which features Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer, opens with ...

In 1729, Baltimore, Md., was founded. In 1930, Uruguay won the World Cup soccer tournament. In 1932, Walt Disney released his first color cartoon, "Flowers and Trees," made in three-color Technicolor.

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; Johnson ran in his own right in 1964, winning in a landslide.

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s portrayal in movies such as ‘The Early Years’ and ’All the Way’ offers a lesson for our divided time.

Biden, Defiant, Will Speak at the Johnson Library on Monday. Fifty Years Ago, LBJ Appeared There to Bid the Nation Farewell. Johnson, in one of his final public appearances, offered humility and hope.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Portland for a campaign visit 60 years ago Saturday, throngs of supporters filled the streets from the airport to City Hall.

Lyndon Johnson’s shift to politics was prompted in part by the advice of College President Evans, who saw Johnson’s possibilities as limitless if he were properly pushed by stiff competition.

It was more than five decades ago, on March 31, 1968, that President Lyndon Johnson stunned American television viewers by announcing he wasn’t running for re-election. The news came amid ...