On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Few people knew Lyndon Johnson better than Tom Johnson. No relation, the latter was a reporter with the Macon Telegraph in ...

Except for wear and tear, a mod downtown Austin office suite used by President Lyndon Baines Johnson for meals, social encounters and critical meetings, sometimes of global significance, looks ...

Ever wary of the Eastern establishment, President Johnson needed advice before a formal luncheon at The New York Times in 1964. By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores ...

Once nativism escalates, it’s hard to stop. By Amanda Frost A veteran journalist, he covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and provided the pool report on the ceremony aboard Air ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Friday marks the late President Lyndon B. Johnson’s birthday. Now at 74 years of age, his daughter feels a sense of urgency to renew the push for voting rights in Texas and the ...