Thrust by the assassination of John Kennedy into the office he always wanted, Lyndon Johnson manipulates, seduces, and strong arms senators into ending legal segregation and waging war on poverty. But ...

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 ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, he committed himself to pushing through an ambitious slate of anti-poverty and civil rights ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" initiative and other ...

Since the implementation of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s, reducing government assistance has become impossible. Society (citizens and corporations alike) has developed a ...

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, ...