Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

In July 1964, the Republican party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the candidate to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. The ultra-conservative Arizona senator, whose radical right-wing rantings ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson ... a year. Johnson had as many as 300 telephone lines installed, and a white phone still hangs underneath the head of his dining room table, right next to his ...

Broadcast of Lyndon B. Johnson's “We Shall Overcome” speech, given during the civil-rights movement shortly after events in Selma, Alabama. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson.

A couple of days after Lyndon B. Johnson ... When Johnson left the White House, Richard Nixon reportedly "took one look at the elaborate setup and said, 'Get rid of this stuff.'" ...

President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights. Examples of Kennedy’s actions are: Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office ... removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Nevertheless, ...