Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election ...
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 ...
President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas in an open motorcade. A little more than two hours later Lyndon Johnson recited ...
The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...
In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...
that legislation was passed after his death and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White ...
Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.
By revoking Executive Order 11246, Donald Trump has erased key civil rights protections for federal contractors.