President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964 — "the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction," as the National ...

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 ...

FILE - This August 1967 file photo shows President Lyndon B. Johnson. A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give Johnson, ...

He advised three defense secretaries, beginning with Robert McNamara, until the Nixon White House started tapping his phones. He retired as a three-star Air Force general. By Trip Gabriel The I.R.S.

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 ...

In one of the more bizarre video series on TikTok right now, a man regularly visits a cemetery to perform today's top music hits "for President Lyndon B. Johnson" Robert Alexander/Getty;MPI/Getty ...