Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

JTA's Ron Kampeas describes the U.S.-Israel friendship through portraits of all 13 presidents ... Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president, LBJ told an Israeli diplomat ...

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, ...

Napalm? The draft?” For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million countrymen, the year produced an unprecedented crop of complaints, based largely on the two great crises that came into confluence.

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...