In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...

Retropolis In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s election exit stunned Americans. More than 50 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked Americans by announcing that he would not seek a ...

Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson did make a short visit to the falls more than 60 years ago, as a marker near the footsteps explains. ... As President Johnson’s campaign stop approached, ...

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great Society” — but the shadow of Vietnam loomed over the White House. What ...

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.

In his second year, he wrote to Lyndon Johnson, then the majority leader of the United States Senate, and landed a summer job as an assistant on his 1954 campaign. Johnson persuaded Mr. Moyers to ...

So to protect demonstrators against violence, President Lyndon B. Johnson did something presidents rarely do: He invoked his legal authority to activate and deploy the National Guard without the ...