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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 ...

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, ...

23, 1963 (UPI) - President Lyndon B. Johnson is the first southerner to hold ... After Johnson's nomination for vice president in July, 1960, Joseph L. Rauh, former chairman of ADA, said: "It ...

President Johnson spoke to a joint session of Congress following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He refl… President Lyndon B. Johnson explained and defended his Vietnam War ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

Johnson also had more success in providing better access to health care for the people receiving limited incomes and the elderly. 1965 Housing and Urban Development Act To provide subsidised rent ...

Jackie Kennedy stood beside Lyndon B. Johnson as he was inaugurated on Air Force One just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Lyndon B. Johnson insisted that JFK’s wife ...