Once, when Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson came to call upon him at the White House, President Harry Truman offered him some advice: "I see that Styles Bridges is senior Republican on ...

In July 1964, the Republican party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the candidate to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. The ultra-conservative Arizona senator, whose radical right-wing rantings ...

the youngest Senate majority leader in history and ultimately, president. How did he do it? There is a wonderful photo of Lyndon Johnson and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Johnson is towering ...

A reauthorized version of the Older Americans Act (OAA) has passed the Senate and is now making its way to the House of ...

It was, said Senator-elect Kennedy, “an overwhelming mandate” for the policies of John F. Kennedy, “and, of course, Lyndon Johnson.” In other key Senate races: — >Robert Taft Jr.

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained ... After six terms in the House, Johnson was ...

At the beginning of the election season, President Lyndon Johnson was the ... size of his support was a defeat to Johnson. Sensing Johnson's vulnerability, Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York ...

Herbert Gordon: 99 minutes after President Kennedy was pronounced dead, Lyndon Baines Johnson took the oath of office. Mrs. Kennedy stood solemnly on his left as he swore to uphold the ...

Historians like to argue whether the times give us the leaders we have or whether the leaders control the times we have. I can’t think of any better examples of the fluidity of the argument than ...

In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democrat to win Indiana since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. He lost the state in 2012 to Mitt Romney. In the 2020 Democratic primary, Joe Biden swept every county ...