Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27th, 1908, near Johnson City, Texas, a town founded by his uncle James Polk Johnson ...

While former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton may be the poster boys for White House sex scandals, it's possible that Lyndon B. Johnson had even more NSFW moments in the Oval Office. The ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 60 years ago this month, evoked memories of his former Mexican American ...

Those who have thought of Caro as one of LBJ’s harshest critics will be surprised at the often unmediated awe he expresses in this new book: “In the lifetime of Lyndon Johnson,” he writes of LBJ’s ...

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965, voting rights speech is an important reminder of the power of moral suasion when applied in support of basic democratic ...

The economy is big, complex and difficult for most people to understand. In reality, the president may not have as much control over the economy as people tend to think — the Federal Reserve, for ...

When President Lyndon Johnson was a boy, his mother, Rebekah, always reminded him that having power is of no value unless it is used to help others. That was the philosophy Johnson held throughout his ...

Political biographers have written about the Kennedy successor's predilection to "showing off" his generous endowment to those around him Tailors, plumbers, journalists and aides were among the many ...