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Officials closed the aging Lyndon B. Johnson State Park Pool in 2024 because it was leaking 30,000 gallons of water a day.
July 2 stands out as a pivotal day in history, marked by momentous events that have shaped nations, cultures, and the course ...
On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White ...
Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States and the architect of some of the most significant federal social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, died fifty years ago on Jan ...
Bill Moyers, a former White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson who became the thoughtful voice of public television, ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.
The Great Society at 50: Lyndon B. Johnson’s cultural vision mirrored his domestic one May 20, 2014 More than 11 years ago Music served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Lyndon Johnson did not initiate American involvement in Vietnam. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy laid the groundwork for U.S. intervention. But the Vietnam War would come to be seen as Johnson's war.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket.