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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...
On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the ... Within hours of the shooting, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president. The Deseret News printed an ...