President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas was lauded by four successor presidents as a Lincoln-esque groundbreaker for civil rights, but President Barack Obama also noted that Johnson also had long ...

Honoring the legacy of a former president he’s barely mentioned previously, President Barack Obama on Thursday cast Lyndon B. Johnson’s push to end legal segregation as a factor in his own ...

Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day become U.S. president.

President Barack Obama punctuated his speech on the ... Act Thursday with some fiery language that would not have sounded unusual coming from the mouth of former President Lyndon B. Johnson. ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson. From the Editors. Half a century after the Kerner report, ... It's that they were only haltingly tried. March 26, 2018. Opinion. Don't repeal the Johnson Amendment, fix it. We ...

A previous version of this article incorrectly said Lyndon B. Johnson gave remarks at his portrait unveiling. He did not. The quip was made by former president Gerald R. Ford at the unveiling of ...

The 10-story library of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the nation's 36th president, ... George W. Bush and Barack Obama spoke at the library’s Civil Rights Summit in 2014.

President Barack Obama helps his wife, ... Then, it was on to the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library, where Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, ...