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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, ... President Barack Obama pardoned her in 2016, and she was released in 2017.