President Barack Obama paid homage Thursday to Lyndon B. Johnson as a white southerner who, thrust into the Oval Office a half century ago, seized history to enact laws that dismantled legal ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson reached to shake hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. ( File - The Associated Press ) President Barack Obama reads ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, Luci Baines Johnson, the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the United States, accompanied her father to Capitol Hill to sign the Voting Rights Act. She asked him why they ...

Lyndon B. Johnson was an effective policymaker but failed to protect his legacy—much in the same way Obama’s is being toppled today.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day ...

Barack Obama did not accomplish in his presidency what he had hoped.

The lament has become all too familiar: Barack Obama should be more like Lyndon Johnson, arm-twisting and cajoling his way to legislative success through the sheer force of his personality. But ...

Senate candidate Mark Warner will deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention this month. Sen. Barack ...

Both Joe Biden and Lyndon Johnson should be measured more by their domestic policy successes, which they could control, than their foreign-war failures, which they could not.

Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day become U.S. president.