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10 Aug 2017, 3:18 am
The Vietnam conflict escalated in 1964 after Congress passed a joint resolution (the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution), just short of a war declaration, authorizing President Lyndon Johnson to help any country that signed a treaty pact in Southeast Asia. [read post]
7 Aug 2017, 4:54 pm
Kennedy and Lyndon B. [read post]
7 Aug 2017, 3:00 am
On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson told a national audience that the North Vietnamese had engaged the U.S. [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 7:38 am
Two days earlier, President Lyndon Johnson presented a draft of the Voting Rights Act to Congress. [read post]
2 Aug 2017, 1:45 pm
” A week after Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. [read post]
29 Jul 2017, 2:55 am
Congress immediately addressed the issue when Senate Majority Leader (and future President) Lyndon Johnson chaired hearings on American space and missile activities. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 3:15 am
President Lyndon Johnson’s conflict with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War led to McNamara’s resignation in 1968. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 11:21 am
" The governor, George Romney, wanted President Lyndon B. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 1:42 pm
Romney) and the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions of the United States Army (sent by President Lyndon B. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 9:32 am
President Lyndon Johnson once lifted his shirt to exhibit to reporters his surgical stitching. [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 9:03 am
Court history — Laura Kalman, The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court (Oxford University Press 2017): In this book, Laura Kalman focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon attempted to dominate the Supreme Court and alter its course. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 2:51 am
As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson has been involved heavily in the fight for the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and as President in 1964, he was committed to honoring his own values and Kennedy’s legacy in the fight for the much-more comprehensive 1964 act. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 9:11 am
A clip of a 1966 Lyndon Johnson establishing Fathers Day. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 12:08 pm
The racialized rhetoric and policies coming from federal lawmakers, including President Trump, have only raised the stakes of these pivotal questions.Although race and poverty have been entwined throughout America’s history, the link between them has often been ignored.For example, in 1964 President Lyndon B. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 9:38 am
He continues to serve as a teacher, advisor, and mentor to students, faculty members, and current government officials while occupying the Lyndon B. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 4:28 am
And, in the meantime, to paraphrase President Lyndon Johnson, if you hire and retained the best qualified, this issue will, most often than not, take care of itself. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 4:28 am
And, in the meantime, to paraphrase President Lyndon Johnson, if you hire and retained the best qualified, this issue will, most often than not, take care of itself. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 8:36 am
He continues to serve as a teacher, advisor, and mentor to students, faculty members, and current government officials while occupying the Lyndon B. [read post]
30 May 2017, 1:01 am
On this day in history Vice President Lyndon B. [read post]
29 May 2017, 6:26 am
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson and the Congress declared that the birthplace of Memorial Day actually occurred in 1866 — two years before the official Declaration Day. [read post]
