For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked ... President Johnson was essential to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. LBJ Library, photo by ...
On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in ...
On January 4, 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson lays out for Congress a laundry list ...