On a cold and windy day in March 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson dedicated the campus of ...

Conversations between MLK and President Johnson foreshadow Obama's election. Jan. 17, 2010— -- As the USA celebrates the first King holiday with a black president, University of Virginia scholars ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - Sixty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri, to sign a groundbreaking piece of legislation into law: the creation of Medicare ...

Political biographers have written about the Kennedy successor's predilection to "showing off" his generous endowment to those around him Tailors, plumbers, journalists and aides were among the many ...

DALLAS, Tex., NOV. 23,1963 -- (AP) -- A gunman assassinated President Kennedy from ambush Friday with a high-powered rifle. Nearly 12 hours later, a 24-year-old man who professed love for the late ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in ...

This work is a one volume abridgment of Dallek's 2-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson v. 1. Lone star rising (1991); v. 2, Flawed giant (1998). The making of a politician -- The Congressman -- The ...

DOT COM. 60 YEARS AGO TODAY, HISTORY WAS MADE RIGHT HERE IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA. THEN PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED A BILL AT THE TRUMAN LIBRARY CREATING MEDICARE AND MEDICAID. KMBC NINE S ANDY ...

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Sid Davis − the last surviving journalist who witnessed the swearing-in of President Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One amid the tumult of his predecessor John F. Kennedy's assassination − has died.