When President Joe Biden dropped his sudden bombshell announcement on Sunday that he has pulled out of the race for the White House, echoes of 1968 grew louder. On March 31, 1968, Lyndon Baines ...

It’s just over six months until Election Day. The president faces a tough fight for reelection. His approval rating has cratered below 40% in the polls, his party is divided over a foreign war, and a ...

WASHINGTON — Some voters probably still hope Joe Biden or Donald Trump - or both - will do what Lyndon Baines Johnson did nearly 56 years ago: Pull out of the presidential race under public pressure.

Arriving at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Monday President Biden hopes to revisit the mountaintop of LBJ’s greatest achievement: passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The first Democrat in Congress to go public urging President Biden to end his reelection campaign this month cited a potent historical precedent — the decision by President Lyndon B. Johnson to ...

The crosswinds of fate sometimes whip up to such an intensity that politics are upended and the direction of the country reversed in an instant. The end of March and the beginning of April 1968 was ...

Lady Bird Johnson could see the tears on her husband’s face. It was the morning of March 31, 1968, and Lyndon B. Johnson was still lying in his White House bedroom. His presidency was falling apart.

President Joe Biden is the first president in more than a generation to decide not to seek a second term. But Biden’s situation is unique in American politics. He had planned to run and won nearly ...