One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching ...

LBJ is a two-part television documentary film about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. The American Experience documentary program recounts Johnson's life from his childhood ...

Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, looking out on ...

An audio-only recording of President Lyndon Johnson’s September 18, 1964, telephone conversation with Senator Richard Russell (R-GA) about the findings of the Warren Commission investigation ...

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 Power Broker is turning 50. His final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say exactly, but he’s trying for 900 words a ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...

In this epochal year in America of political upheaval, the only thing we should not be shocked about is that there are huge ...

(TIME, April 12, 1968) -- Lyndon Johnson's renunciation of a second term as President dumbfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming. It was not ...

During a visit to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, I was struck by just how many parallels there are between Lyndon Johnson and Trump. Liberals knew all about Johnson’s faults in the 1960s.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Bill signed by President Lyndon Johnson. As he signed it, he stated “Just finishing up what Lincoln started.” ...

In 1965, Paxton released one of his most notable songs, ‘Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation.’ With its signature finger-picked guitar and straightforward yet thought-provoking lyrics, this song ...