President Lyndon Johnson called on Americans' “better angels” with speeches on the “Great Society” and… President Ronald Reagan delivered his 1981 inaugural address from the U.S. Capitol ...

April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

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 campaign, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in ... racial gap in median income has improved only slightly since LBJ's 1965 speech. The median ...

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

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice ...