Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President ... he was determined to "out-Kennedy the Kennedys" by pushing through historic social legislation on a scale that rivaled FDR's New Deal.

LBJ was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937 campaigning on his support of FDR’s “New Deal. ... Lyndon B. Johnson served as President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in the President's Room as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on, August 6, 1965. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto ...

President Lyndon Johnson put this into effect in the mid-1960s. Johnson developed anti-poverty programs such as Head Start , but he also created cultural programs such as PBS , expanded civil ...

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

The comprehensive biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ted reviews the four-volume (and counting) biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson by author Robert A. Caro. Aired 11/04/2024 ...

A customized "Golden Rule" watch Lyndon B. Johnson once gifted to Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma is up for auction and expected to go for tens of thousands of dollars. Auction house Christie's ...