The paradox of reform -- "I am a Roosevelt New Dealer"; liberalism ascendant -- Funding the Great Society and the War on Poverty -- The second reconstruction -- The mandate: the election of 1964 -- ...

Only in the U.S. can a boy born in a rural Texas farmhouse with no electricity or running water one day grow up to hold the most powerful office in the world. But President Lyndon Baines Johnson ...

On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a crowd of more than 80,000 at the University of Michigan’s football stadium in Ann Arbor. Having taken the oath of office just six months earlier ...

Khachigian, Reagan's speechwriter, says Obama's budget would also create tension between people who fought their way up the economic ladder and those who did not. Under Obama, the well-off would be ...

President Lyndon Johnson speaking about the Great Society on the College Green of Ohio University in 1964. (Photo Provided) Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great ...

"History and Fate," a temporary exhibition in Austin about the work of the late Richard Goodwin, speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included key policies such as federal aid for education, Medicare for older Americans and the Medicaid health program for low-income citizens. These ...

Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan will return to Broadway with the second of his two exhilarating dramas celebrating Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy: THE GREAT SOCIETY.

As we approach the 46th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing Medicare into law, on July 30, the Blame LBJ Club is still open for business. The same people on the political right who ...

At his town hall event in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Monday, following the viral downtown brawl, Vivek Ramaswamy slammed President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Missing teen girl found alive 2 weeks after ...

v.1. The Kennedy assassination, and the transfer of power, November 1963-January 1964. November 22-30, 1963 / edited by Max Holland -- v.2. The Kennedy assassination, and the transfer of power, ...