President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way ... sites from Mount Vernon to LBJ's ranch. Johnson's Central Texas ranch was his refuge. He flew to Hill Country outside Johnson City 74 ...

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 ...

"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 ... to restrain Communist encroachment in Viet Nam. Johnson ...

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, ...

Jackie Kennedy stood beside Lyndon B ... on Air Force One with only family and friends on board as his symbolic last trip as president. It also details how Johnson called up JFK’s brother ...

23, 1963 (UPI) - President Lyndon B. Johnson ... Andrew Johnson was not nominated for a full term. The Republicans in 1868 elected a war hero president, Gen. U.S. Grant. His running mate was ...

Herbert Gordon: 99 minutes after President Kennedy was pronounced dead, Lyndon Baines Johnson took the oath of office. Mrs. Kennedy stood solemnly on his left ... Lyndon B. Johnson: I do solemnly ...