"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 he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...

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, ...

Turning now to “LBJ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before becoming the 36th president Johnson taught at an elementary school in ...

Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan will return to Broadway with the second of his two exhilarating dramas celebrating Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy: THE GREAT SOCIETY.

An archived copy of the Michigan Daily newspaper from 1964, documenting President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” speech. (Screengrab taken from Michigan Daily Digital Archives October 1 ...

Author David Pietrusza discussed how Lyndon Johnson was selected to be John Kennedy's running mate in the 1960 presidential election.

We compare the mark on the economy made by two presidents: Joe Biden and Lyndon Johnson. Sign up for the ... Decades after the promise of "The Great Society" for Americans, President Biden is ...

When President Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Portland ... a leader in building the Great Society,” Johnson said in his remarks. “Yes, Maine will again be a leader and will serve as a bulwark ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has touted an economic vision for America called the “Opportunity Society ... marks the 60th ...

This book will offer a fresh up-to-date balanced overview of Johnson's policies across a range of theatres and issues with the aim of generating a proper understanding of his successes and failures in ...

Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...