LBJ expresses solidarity with the civil rights struggle and asks Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Address to Congress on Voting Rights; U.S. Capitol ...
President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...
Why President Johnson Signed the Executive Order in 1965 That Trump Rescinded WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had ...
For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million ... s hopes of ever succeeding Johnson on his own. Democrats abandoned the President in droves, forming Dump-L.B.J. movements or rallying behind Gene McCarthy ...
Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...
In the waning days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration ... They also drew more than 100 picketers from the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and other civil rights ...
And the man who clearly intends to dominate that issue and the Congress itself in Election Year 1958 is none other than Lyndon ... John B. Medaris. scheduled to appear before the Johnson ...
"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President. The Great Society program became ...