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.

Lyndon Johnson:A Man Who Takes His Time (TIME, April 25, 1960) -- Texas stirred with the promise of the season. The roosters greeted the dawn with an ovation, the newborn calves staggered after ...

Lyndon Johnson did not initiate American involvement in Vietnam. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy laid the groundwork for U.S. intervention. But the Vietnam War would come to be seen as Johnson's war.

But Russell, that Georgia senator, found striking language in a section of the bill that made it much stronger, and Johnson again reversed course. “Johnson eventually told (President) Eisenhower ...

Though in 1967 Eisenhower would say that "there can be no question the judgement of the court was right," in the six years following Brown, Lyndon Johnson biographer Robert Caro wrote, Eisenhower ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

President Eisenhower and Sen. Lyndon Johnson at a bipartisan luncheon at the White House on March 31, 1955. (Wikimedia Commons) Sign up to receive our latest updates!

As the Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson — seen here with President Dwight Eisenhower in 1955 — led the effort to respond to the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first satellite.