Johnson was on the opposite side of Trump Republicanism, but 88 years ago this week, he hit the campaign trail in his first run for Congress with a simple slogan: “A vote for Johnson is a vote ...

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, the ...

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, ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of ... of a number of key Eisenhower measures. In the 1960 campaign, ...