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On Aug. 27, 1908, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas. After entering politics in the early 1930s, Johnson, or LBJ as he’s more popularly known, would represent ...
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Turning now to “LBJ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before becoming the 36th president Johnson taught at an elementary school in Texas. LBJ was elected to the U.S ...
Biden, Defiant, Will Speak at the Johnson Library on Monday. Fifty Years Ago, LBJ Appeared There to Bid the Nation Farewell. Johnson, in one of his final public appearances, offered humility and hope.
On March 31, 1968, Lyndon Baines Johnson went on the air with an unscheduled Oval Office television address to announce, perhaps even more unexpectedly: "I shall not seek, nor will I accept, the ...
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted the seeds of compassion." ...
In the 1960s, the nation became accustomed to getting its White House news not just from Washington, but from a ranch in Texas owned by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The LBJ Ranch was succeeded ...
Mr. Kuhn is the author of “The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.” Lyndon Baines Johnson would fall asleep at night and imagine himself ...
But Johnson didn’t blame Nixon for violence in Chicago. The mayor’s only mention of Nixon came after reflecting on President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty. “Black death has been ...