Description. This lesson explores the first 100 days of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. The lesson, which features Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer, opens with ...

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; Johnson ran in his own right in 1964, winning in a landslide.

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 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 ...

Newly released audio recordings from 1977 show details into former president Lyndon B. Johnson's controversial Senate victory made possible through falsified votes.

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 Biden, be like LBJ, whose choice to bow out was hugely popular. The chaos of 1968 had nothing to do with Lyndon Johnson’s late decision not to run for reelection.

In her new book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explores the trajectories of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon ...

It was more than five decades ago, on March 31, 1968, that President Lyndon Johnson stunned American television viewers by announcing he wasn’t running for re-election. The news came amid ...

Harry Middleton and Robert Hardesty, former speechwriters for President Lyndon Johnson, talked about personal conversations and private moments they shared with the former president. They also ...

Marking the 50 th anniversary of the death of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, on January 22, 1973, Mark K. Updegrove, president and chief executive of the LBJ ...

Advertisements from the 1964 Lyndon Johnson presidential campaign were shown, including the popular “Daisy” advertisement. Report Video Issue Javascript must be enabled in order to access C ...