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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 first portraits financed by the White House Historical Association were those of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson and John F. Kennedy and Jaqueline Kennedy.
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.
In her new book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explores the trajectories of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon ...
Senate candidate Mark Warner will deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention this month. Sen. Barack ...
Both Joe Biden and Lyndon Johnson should be measured more by their domestic policy successes, which they could control, than their foreign-war failures, which they could not.
Lyndon B. Johnson died on January 22, 1973, following a heart attack. He was 64. His body lay in state at the U.S. Capitol rotunda and he was buried in his native Texas.