| 单词 | President Lyndon Johnson |
| 例句 | Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson embraced the antipoverty rhetoric with great passion, calling for an “unconditional war on poverty,” in his State of the Union Address in January 1964. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And they found an ally in Liz Carpenter, the assistant of Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z And the voting rights of African Americans in the South were restricted until President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Questions of its historical veracity in portraying the relationship of Dr. King and President Lyndon Johnson might have slowed its awards momentum; we’ll see next Thursday when the Motion Picture Academy announces its Oscar nominations. Who'll Win the Golden Globes — Besides Michael Keaton and Boyhood 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Well, Lynda Johnson Robb, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, boasted that the marriage resulting from her White House wedding lasted longer than that of any other couple married there. ‘No one talks about that. No, no no!’ At a reunion of presidential descendants, don’t ask about Trump. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson recognized how gripping Hamer’s testimony was to national audiences and delivered a press conference that interrupted it before it could air in its entirety. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But Ellsberg’s leak did reveal the government’s longtime cynicism about the war: that President Lyndon Johnson had believed it was unwinnable, even as more bombs fell and as more soldiers and civilians died. Perspective | Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, asks: Who will be the next Snowden? 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z ABC opened its coverage with tape of President Franklin Roosevelt signing Social Security legislation and President Lyndon Johnson creating Medicare. TV networks cover health care legislation signing 2010-03-23T17:12:00Z Astor is pictured in the auction catalog wearing the pieces while chatting with President Lyndon Johnson at a dinner dance in his honor at the Plaza Hotel in 1969. Contents of Brooke Astor's homes going to auction 2012-09-23T21:16:04Z Born in 1959, Walker, the son of a single mother, was one of the first students to participate in the Head Start program, a core element of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty agenda. Perspective | A voice for the arts, and social justice, joins the National Gallery of Art board 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z During the 1950s it served Mexican as the hangout for Mexican and Texas politicians, including President Lyndon Johnson and Maverick County Judge Roberto Bibb, conniving the different ways the Mexican vote would be delivered. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Robinson was invited to the White House in 1965 for President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act, but in the decades since, female leaders of the movement have rarely been celebrated. Fifty years later, spotlight shines on civil rights icon Amelia Boynton Robinson 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z One thing not going DuVernay's way is criticism that President Lyndon Johnson is misrepresented in the film as lukewarm to African-Americans' fight for voting rights. 'Selma' director makes history before awards are bestowed 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Four months after the historic march President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 'Freedom Journey' photo exhibit recalls 1965 civil rights march 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Talmadge, meanwhile, once declared that "God advocates segregation" and boycotted the Democratic National Convention, along with a dozen other southern senators, after former President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Whoopi rips Democrats for suggesting Biden is a racist 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z He won a Golden Globe award for his depiction of President Lyndon Johnson in a TV movie in the late 1980s. Canada denies Randy Quaid's request to stay 2013-01-27T09:01:08Z President Lyndon Johnson and its star, Bryan Cranston, best known for his Emmy-winning performance in television's "Breaking Bad," are in the running for best play and actor. Neil Patrick Harris, Cranston go for Tonys on Broadway's big night 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Some historians had said the film misrepresented President Lyndon Johnson's stand on voting rights, but critics were quick to point out that "Selma" was only the latest historical picture to draw scrutiny over its accuracy. Diversity out of the picture in Oscars race 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson couldn’t resist playing jokes on friends during his summer vacation. Summertime often means vacations — even for the president 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z During the Vietnam War, Richard Helms grew more and more skeptical about the prospects of American success even as President Lyndon Johnson grew more and more desperate for good news. One of the Most Perilous Jobs in Government 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Any public utterance against Vietnam would threaten his relationship with President Lyndon Johnson, who had helped to advance the cause of civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Searing Antiwar Speech, Fifty Years Later 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964. Adelman civil rights photography exhibit extended 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z In 1968, another Minnesotan, Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy, built his campaign around opposing the Vietnam War and finished second in New Hampshire’s primary, helping push President Lyndon Johnson into forgoing a second term. Biden will face a primary bid from Rep. Dean Phillips, who says Democrats need to focus on future 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson won the New Hampshire primary in 1968 as a write-in candidate, although he dropped out of the race 19 days later. So Biden’s a no-show on the New Hampshire primary ballot. What happens next? 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z In the mid-1960s, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Poverty.” How the Daughter of Sharecroppers Revolutionized Preschoolers' Health 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Of note, President Lyndon Johnson was a public school teacher in rural Texas. One nation on two different paths 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Efforts to suppress or weaken voter turnout are of special interest to the LBJ Foundation, Updegrove said, given that President Lyndon Johnson considered his signing of the Voting Rights Act his “proudest legislative accomplishment.” Presidential centers issue joint statement calling out the fragile state of US democracy 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z He was acting as a conduit to North Vietnam for the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, which was working on a peace deal it hoped to announce before the 1968 presidential election. Henry Kissinger at 100: A centenarian with a remarkable life — and still a war criminal 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z No Democratic presidential candidate has carried the state since President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. South Dakota Democratic Party ousts state chair who was accused of creating hostile work environment 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z And after Kennedy was assassinated, Shriver was tapped to head up President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty program. How the Daughter of Sharecroppers Revolutionized Preschoolers' Health 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting practices. The past isn't dead: Teaching the truth about America's racial history is critical 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Regulators under administrations dating to President Lyndon Johnson have set out new guidelines, which serve largely as a matter of policy intent because they are not enforced by law. Biden’s Antitrust Team Isn’t Backing Down From a Fight 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Now 83, Finkelstein still isn’t sure how he ended up witnessing the signing — on his 25th birthday — but figured President Lyndon Johnson wanted people who had worked on the bill to be present. Young lawyer who helped write voting rights bill ‘star-struck’ as he witnessed 1965 signing into law 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The occasion that day was President Lyndon Johnson’s scheduled signing of the Voting Rights Act, which Congress had passed the day before. LBJ’s daughter Luci watched him sign voting rights bill, then cried when Supreme Court weakened it 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z In December 1964, Young and King headed to Washington to meet with President Lyndon Johnson after King had just accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Andrew Young was at Martin Luther King’s side throughout often violent struggle for civil rights 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z You could take one sentence after another from his speeches there and find almost identical ones that President Lyndon Johnson used in speaking to American troops in Vietnam in 1966. Aggression made easy: The wars we don’t (care to) see 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Four days later, twenty-two thousand U.S. troops invaded in order to prevent a communist takeover, as President Lyndon Johnson claimed. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z King was inside the home when President Lyndon Johnson announced a bill that would become the Voting Rights Act of 1965. House where MLK planned Alabama marches to be dismantled, moved to Michigan and rebuilt 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Citing President Lyndon Johnson’s handling of Vietnam, Carter included the last Democratic president alongside disgraced Republican Richard Nixon as guilty of “lying, cheating and distorting the truth.” Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ‘76 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z In Vietnam, President Lyndon Johnson used a 1964 congressional resolution for military force, after an alleged attack on U.S. ships, to steadily draw U.S. forces deeper into the increasingly unpopular war. Why the debate over repealing Iraq War approval matters 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z In the late 1960s and early 1970s, President Lyndon Johnson’s advisers tried to work the program into the War on Poverty. Oregon opens the door to universal basic income in WA 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The resolution gave President Lyndon Johnson permission to retaliate against North Vietnamese attacks and to act first to defend U.S. lives. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z But he joined a subsequent procession that successfully crossed the bridge toward the Capitol in Montgomery, punctuating efforts that pushed Congress to pass and President Lyndon Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over words 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z He fought for voting rights for Black Americans and witnessed President Lyndon Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act into law. Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by practicing his words, continuing his work 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z After President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson postponed the ceremony until days before Christmas as the nation observed a thirty-day period of national mourning. National Christmas Tree blazes to life with Biden lighting 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z This group included a young Harvard economist, Dr. Robert Weaver, who subsequently became the nation’s first Black cabinet secretary in 1966, as President Lyndon Johnson’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson’s administration expanded the national government’s role in society even more. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson also signs the Higher Education Act of 1965 that gives college students access to loans, grants and other programs. Title IX timeline: 50 years of halting progress across U.S. 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z When President Lyndon Johnson gave John Wayne military assistance to make the 1968 film “The Green Berets,” audiences flocked to Wayne’s effort to glorify the “American fighting man.” ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ scores rare apolitical hit without woke politics 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Following the 1966 University of Texas shooting, President Lyndon Johnson called for urgent legislation and lamented the sway of a "powerful gun lobby" when the new regulations fell well short of his ambitions. Texas shooting: Uvalde tragedy opens old wounds for Sandy Hook parents 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson gave it a try with his War on Poverty, which was more of a success than history credits it. Universal basic income: An argument without end 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The party still held the reins in the Senate in 1967 when President Lyndon Johnson maneuvered to create a Supreme Court opening and then sought to fill it with a groundbreaking choice. Marshall, 1st Black justice, faced down Senate critics 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z When he signed it, President Lyndon Johnson called it “one of the most monumental laws in the entire history of American freedom.” myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson told Congress that North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z President John F. Kennedy increased that aid, and President Lyndon Johnson committed the United States to full-scale war in early 1965. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the phrase was first coined in the mid-1960s by the late economist Arthur Okun, who was an adviser to former President Lyndon Johnson. The Biden Misery Index has arrived 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z For example, President Lyndon Johnson taped many of his private conversations, but they didn’t become available until decades after his death. Trump’s stash of documents shows ‘fragile’ historical record 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z In 1964, Sen. Barry Goldwater — who was running for president on the Republican ticket — openly opposed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts that President Lyndon Johnson was then pushing through Congress. GOP's new voter suppression tactic is also an old one: "Election police" 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z The anti-measles policy, for example, was an outgrowth of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty initiatives. Opinion | Behind Low Vaccination Rates Lurks a More Profound Social Weakness 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z When racial unrest exploded into violence in Detroit during the “long, hot summer” of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson ordered units of the United States Army into the city. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson tried to persuade companies to forgo price increases and labor unions to limit wage demands — a practice known as “jawboning.” Biden aims to do what presidents often can’t: Beat inflation 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Two years later, she was facing down President Lyndon Johnson and the national civil rights leadership at the Democratic National Convention. Review | What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The following year, Daniel and his parents represented the Truman family at President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 inauguration, and were invited to a private breakfast at the White House. When Truman is your grandpa: The complicated lives of presidential descendants 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson wanted to see him, but the pontiff was a chief of a state not officially recognized by the U.S. Presidents and popes over the years: Gifts, gaffes, grief 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z When those laws passed, President Lyndon Johnson predicted they would lead the Democratic Party to lose the South for a generation. Opinion | Thomas Jefferson Gave the Constitution 19 Years. Look Where We Are Now. 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson supposedly knew this was happening but did not go public with it. Untwist your knickers, Trump fans: History says the 2020 election was nothing special 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z But President Lyndon Johnson prevented the group of rebel Democrats from voting in the convention and instead let Jim Crow southerners remain, drawing national attention. 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson, a Texas chauvinist who wrapped himself in the reflected glory, also had a big hand in perpetuating the phony narrative. Column: Remembering the Alamo, Texans fight over myth versus history 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Amount President Lyndon Johnson temporarily raised top tax rates to pay for Vietnam War: 77%. The cost of the Afghanistan war, in lives and dollars 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson pushed civil rights legislation hard, over the objections of some of his political allies who felt it was too risky. Opinion | The Biden administration needs to take democracy issues much more seriously 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z After the Watts uprising in 1965, while President Lyndon Johnson compared Black “looters” to “the night riders of the Ku Klux Klan,” Kennedy insisted that “just saying ‘obey the law’ is not going to work. Review | Robert Kennedy’s path from son of privilege to civil rights ally 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Mississippi’s then-governor claimed their disappearance was a hoax, and segregationist Sen. Jim Eastland told President Lyndon Johnson it was a “publicity stunt” before their bodies were dug up, found weeks later in an earthen dam. Case files on 1964 civil rights worker killings made public 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z PORTLAND, Maine — Nearly 60 years ago, dozens of soldiers assembled for a top secret mission to Vietnam, three years before President Lyndon Johnson officially sent U.S. combat troops to the country. Vietnam vets killed during secret Pacific mission get Maine memorial nearly 60 years later 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z A year later, President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty, which led to the passage of Medicare and Medicaid and significant investment in community health. This is how we address America's mental health crisis 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The proposal, if passed in its current form by Congress, would be the most sweeping federal intervention in the economy since former President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" programs in the 1960s. Analysis: Biden, Powell paddling in same direction on policy front 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson backed out of running for another term after barely winning the New Hampshire primary and anointed Vice President Hubert Humphrey as his heir apparent. "Trial of the Chicago 7": A flawed film — but highly relevant to America in 2021 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z On the eve of the deal in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson dismissed concerns raised by a resident that the trade winds would carry the plant’s fumes and waste to the southern shore’s “magnificent beaches.” Refinery rained oil onto Virgin Islands community that awaits cleanup a month later 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z She quickly became a spokesperson and ambassador for the American Foundation for the Blind and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, according to the foundation. Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan: What to know about the trailblazers for the blind and deaf 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z By contrast, when President Lyndon Johnson’s “guns and butter” policy stoked inflation in the mid-1960s, output exceeded potential by about 5 percent. The Biden Economy Risks a Speeding Ticket 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Medicare Advantage covered 24 million people last year — nearly four in 10 of those on the vast government insurance program that began as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society of the mid-1960s. Becerra commits to private-sector Medicare but indicates it is too generous 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Soon after, President Lyndon Johnson's surprise decision not to run for reelection turned the race for the presidency upside down. Joe Biden echoes MLK's call to save America's soul. But is that even possible? 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z “I leave my troubles outside the gate,” Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, once said of the camp. At Camp David retreat, Biden hangs out, shows he’s got game 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Former President Lyndon Johnson was probably not the first, nor certainly the last, to note that more Americans have died on the nation's roads than in all of its wars combined. In battle against "the highway disease," traffic safety agency attacked as asleep at the wheel 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson’s Kerner Commission would later conclude that police action sparked half of the 24 nationwide uprisings probed in detail. Research: Aggressive policing escalates violence at protests 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z In fact, the political atmosphere was so bad for President Lyndon Johnson that the Democrat didn’t seek reelection. 6 questions going into the presidential election 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z A week later, McCain sent a letter to President Lyndon Johnson. Roberta McCain, ‘rebellious’ heiress, Navy wife and mother of senator, dies at 108 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps proving that he wasn’t talented at deception, Salinger used the same cold excuse to explain Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s impromptu flight from Hawaii to the White House at the same time. A Brief History of Presidents Disclosing—Or Trying to Hide—Health Problems 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z We came to this part of Ohio because it’s where President Lyndon Johnson decades ago first mentioned the Great Society, perhaps the most audacious federal push to remake America since World War II. In Appalachia, people watch COVID-19, race issues from afar 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Rather than informing reporters, Demetracopoulos sought a path to President Lyndon Johnson. Review | Pursuing truth — and fame — a reporter blurred journalism’s boundaries 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z He served in the post until the end of President Lyndon Johnson’s term in 1969, overseeing major efforts including the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and the expansion of the National Park system. Arizona picks senators, military for Trump’s heroes garden 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z In 1964, during President Lyndon Johnson's first term, 77 percent of Americans said they trusted the government to do what is right "just about always" or "most of the time." Anti-government propaganda is a Republican ploy meant to disarm progressives 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z And, after years of protest and organizing by black leaders, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which intended to enfranchise black voters by outlawing discriminatory tactics such as literacy tests. Civil death: how millions of Americans lost their right to vote 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Hassan, the other senator from New Hampshire, is the daughter of Robert Wood, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon Johnson. Veepstakes Heats Up: Guide to Biden’s running mate options 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Bloody Sunday and the voting rights marches occurred two years later, months before President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act. At Lewis funeral, Obama calls for renewing Voting Rights Act 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Eight days later, President Lyndon Johnson introduced the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights legislation. 'He never yielded': mourners pay respects to John Lewis outside Capitol 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z He’s also doing documentaries on the United States’ actions during the Holocaust, the comeback of the buffalo and the history of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Burns outlines 8 projects; PBS launches documentary service 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Aug. 6 of that year. Body of John Lewis arrives in DC to lie in state at Capitol 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z He managed to escape to a nearby church and spoke at a press conference calling for President Lyndon Johnson to send military reinforcements to Alabama. John Lewis, civil rights icon, congressman for 33 years, dead at 80 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson days later demanded that Congress approve legislation removing barriers to Black voting. John Lewis, U.S. congressman and sharecropper's son, was civil rights hero 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Five months later, with Lewis among the collection of civil rights leaders at the White House, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Obituary: Representative John Lewis 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Within days, King led more marches in the state, and President Lyndon Johnson soon was pressing Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act. US Rep. John Lewis, civil rights icon, dead at 80 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z As an aide to President Lyndon Johnson, he helped pass both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and later served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Opinion | Putting Heroes, and Traitors, Where They Belong 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which moved commemorations for Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day and Veterans Day to Monday, creating three-day holiday weekends beginning in 1971. Today in History 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z In a separate opinion poll at the same time, however, 45% believed the U.S. administration of President Lyndon Johnson was moving too fast on the voting rights and integration that protesters advocated. White Americans turn out for Floyd protests, but will they work for change? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Generations later, the right to vote never seemed so important and newly triumphant as on the day President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Opinion | Trump Reveals the Truth About Voter Suppression 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Vietnam-era leaders from President Lyndon Johnson down spoke falsely of the “steady” and “dramatic” war progress, and, most famously, as my colleague Karen Tumulty noted, of the “light at the end of the tunnel.” Opinion | This pandemic is Trump’s Vietnam. He has earned his bone spurs. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z That was the phrase President Lyndon Johnson used during the Vietnam War. Opinion | There Is an Antidote to Our Fear. It’s Called Leadership. 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The beatings, known as “Bloody Sunday,” generated anger across the nation 55 years ago this month and prompted President Lyndon Johnson to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress. Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The Rev. Martin Luther King, his lieutenant Andrew Young and other activists sat down with President Lyndon Johnson after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z More than 50 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Amid the national turmoil and declining support within his own Democratic party, President Lyndon Johnson stunned the country and announced on March 31, 1968, that he would not run for a second term. Why Iowa caucuses are 'first in the nation': Brit Hume explains it all 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z That was when President Lyndon Johnson assembled a task force to design computer software that would help to solve the nation’s “crime problem”. Silicon Valley's cocaine problem shaped our racist tech 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But it was President Lyndon Johnson who came in for the most brutal attacks, primarily for the sin of running against the conservative darling Senator Barry Goldwater. Opinion | Scandalize! Minimize! Repeat as Necessary 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z There’s also a handwritten note from President Lyndon Johnson sent 10 days after he succeeded Kennedy. Seller auctioning JFK docs from ex-California governor 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z In a study for the National Bureau of Economic Research, four economists evaluated the success of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In 1964, speaking at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson called for the U.S. to become a “great society.” Lessons of LBJ’s War on Poverty 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z And 30 years after the creation of Social Security, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law both Medicare and Medicaid. Why America is so poor at helping people who need long-term health care 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In 1965, following a report from his Science Advisory Committee, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to pass a law curbing carbon dioxide emissions. Opinion | The World Solved the Ozone Problem. It Can Solve Climate Change. 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson pushed Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin against a wall after Martin dared to raise the discount rate half a percentage point. Opinion | Trump Isn’t the First President to Make War on the Federal Reserve 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Eugene McCarthy's, D-Minn., surprise primary performance there in 1968 -- which lead incumbent President Lyndon Johnson to later drop out of the race. Republican 2020 candidate slams 'out of control' Trump after his attack on GOP critics 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z That bombing campaign had begun under President Lyndon Johnson, but it expanded in a staggering way in the Nixon years. Extorting Ukraine is bad enough, but Trump has done much worse 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Nixon’s great fear was that President Lyndon Johnson would start peace talks before Election Day, boosting Humphrey’s campaign along with hopes for an end to the war. Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson’s ambitious Great Society initiative was in full effect, and though she had intentions of pursuing a graduate degree, Mom decided first to put her idealism into practice. My Family’s Life Inside and Outside America’s Racial Categories 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Bernstein wrote to President Lyndon Johnson and explained that a weakness in his left arm left him unable to hold Gypsy’s leash. The DC panhandler who owned a Florida drag bar - The Washington Post 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z In 1964, after fishing resumed, President Lyndon Johnson ate a fish from the Narraguagus River that had been sliced into steaks and poached in a French style. The Last Presidential Salmon 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Under President Lyndon Johnson, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, as it was known at the time, began wielding its new hammer. Effective but never popular, court-ordered busing is a relic few would revive 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 and served as an active judge for 50 years, the statement said. Judge Real, who desegregated California schools, dies at 95 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 and served as an active judge for 50 years. Judge Real, who desegregated California schools, dies at 95 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z “There were mass demonstrations but there were no riots,” said James, who at the time ran the Tri-County Commission on Economic Opportunity, part of President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty. Lessons linger from Harrisburg’s 1969 racial turmoil 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z Talmadge once declared that "God advocates segregation" and boycotted the Democratic National Convention, along with a dozen other southern senators, after former President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Joe Biden defends comments about working with segregationist senators: "Apologize for what?" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Talmadge once declared that "God advocates segregation" and boycotted the Democratic National Convention, along with a dozen other southern senators, after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. De Blasio slams Biden for lauding notoriously racist senators 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 issued the first presidential proclamation designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z In rapid order, President Lyndon Johnson presided over an avalanche of social legislation. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson famously dressed down Chairman William McChesney Martin for presiding over Fed rate hikes and asked his aides about firing him, just as Trump has done with Powell. A Trump dilemma: Finding a dovish GOP ally to serve on Fed 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The idea of the protest was a “stall-in”, an attempt to block the city’s streets with cars emptied of petrol on the day that President Lyndon Johnson was due to attend the fair. The big picture: a civil-rights ‘stall-in’, Harlem, 1964 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Images of the violence brought attention to the cause, and President Lyndon Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act that year. Presidential hopeful Booker, in Selma, says U.S. failing its people 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z In that sense, Mr. Trump’s presidency has become to the Republican Party what Vietnam was to President Lyndon Johnson. Opinion | Republicans Got Us Into This Mess, and They Have to Get Us Out of It 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson created the first national health-care program in 1965, after fierce political battles, when he signed the Social Security Act Amendments. The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Despite President Lyndon Johnson’s shepherding of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, ending legal apartheid in the United States, King became even more radical as the decade went on. Martin Luther King was no prophet of unity. He was a radical | Bhaskar Sunkara 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z That’s when President Lyndon Johnson delivered the first State of the Union in prime time. How the State of the Union became a broadcast event 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Bush also recalls skipping Nixon’s 1969 inauguration parade to attend President Lyndon Johnson’s farewell at Andrews Air Force Base. The memoir I wish George H.W. Bush had written 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson once invited Chairman William McChesney Martin to his Texas ranch to try to persuade him not to raise rates. Trump can rail against Powell, but he can’t fire him 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was riding in the third car behind Kennedy’s, was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States, a mere 99 minutes after Kennedy’s death. Mark Fuhrman unveils analysis on Kennedy’s assassination on Fox Nation’s ‘The Fuhrman Diaries’ 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The Migrant Education Program dates back to President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty in the 1960s and has existed in Fairbanks since at least the 1980s. Funding for farm workers is a boon to subsistence users 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Other senior officials dissented, most notable among them Undersecretary of State George Ball, but President Lyndon Johnson ignored them. Review | The many flaws and failures of the United States in the Vietnam War 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z U.S. intelligence agencies watched with concern as troops massed near the borders of Czechoslovakia, but the invasion caught the administration of President Lyndon Johnson by surprise. 50 years after Prague Spring, lessons on freedom 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Even though President Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act after King’s death, the law was not enforced in Dallas or surrounding areas. 'Standing on the shoulders of giants.' 1968: a year in sports like no other 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It took shape during the height of the civil rights movement, when President Lyndon Johnson signed a similar executive order in 1965 requiring government contractors to take steps to hire more minorities. Trump 'to scrap' affirmative action policy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z One plaintiff was Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., who had challenged President Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 presidential primaries — from the left. Conservatives embrace powerful tool before Supreme Court: Free speech 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson once took our much smaller prime minister Lester Pearson by the lapels and shook him after the Canadian made a mildly critical speech at Temple University. Canada and America are cousins. We don't stab each other in the back | Margaret MacMillan 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago, after race riots decimated cities across the country, the Kerner Commission, convened by President Lyndon Johnson, concluded that “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.” Perspective | Poverty is moving to the suburbs. The war on poverty hasn’t followed. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z That was a key conclusion, he said, of the Kerner Commission report on the causes of civil disorder, delivered to President Lyndon Johnson and the nation in 1968. The injustices MLK fought are still present in Seattle today 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson, who belonged to the Disciples of Christ, signed the bill at the Statue of Liberty. The Theory Behind That Charlottesville Slogan 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z By age 40 he was a respected economist and adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, dealing with international economic policy and relations with Europe. Francis Bator, Hungarian Refugee, Advised Lyndon Johnson on Economics and Europe 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson, with the grudging acquiescence of Congress, replaced the federally controlled three-commissioner District government in late 1967 with a presidentially appointed black mayor, Walter E. Washington, and an appointed black-majority city council. In segregated D.C., few officials feared rioting. They had not considered the suffering of black residents. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z In Washington, Bator proposed federal programs and policies that were later incorporated into President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. This week’s passages 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The right to vote is so basic, President Lyndon Johnson said in 1965, that without it “all others are meaningless.” Opinion | Vote. That’s Just What They Don’t Want You to Do. 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z That is what President Lyndon Johnson had in mind when he created the Kerner Commission to examine the riots that exploded across the country, from Watts to Newark to Detroit, in the late 1960s. Review | 50 years ago, a presidential commission called out America’s ‘white racism.’ It didn’t go over well. 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Assassins claimed the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy; a beleaguered President Lyndon Johnson declined to run for reelection. The president was polarizing, even crude. The shocking became routine. Somehow, we survived 1968 — or did we? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Four bedrooms, five baths originally built for President Lyndon Johnson in Texas Hill Country. Inside the Beltway: ‘The Faith of Donald J. Trump’ charts president’s distinctive faith 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Water outages and boil-water advisories have long plagued this rugged former coal mining region on the eastern tip of Kentucky, where more than half a century ago President Lyndon Johnson launched his war on poverty. In eastern Kentucky, a rural county struggles without a steady supply of clean water 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for another term and put limitations on bombing as a prelude to peace talks. Vietnam veterans recall all-female Tet Offensive squad 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Just nine weeks earlier, the general visited the United States on the orders of President Lyndon Johnson to participate in a “success offensive,” a concerted effort to bolster public support for the war. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act through Congress, and the next year the Voting Rights Act became law. If Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama shows us anything, it’s that we desperately need change 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The county has given Democratic presidential nominees no more than 45 percent of the vote since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Alabama win has Democrats broadening their target list 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Harold Wilson’s falling out with President Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam was probably the last time there has been as big a wedge between the two countries. Donald Trump visit to UK expected in new year, says US ambassador 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z In 1967, as President Lyndon Johnson expanded the Great Society at home and waged war in Vietnam, corporate tax payments accounted for nearly one-quarter of government revenue. Analysis | Why Congress is giving cash-flush corporations more cash 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr Conyers is the last member of Congress to have been in office under President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. US congressman gives up post amid inquiry 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Influential Sen. Warren G. Magnuson paid a visit, soon convincing President Lyndon Johnson to authorize money to build an impromptu, horseshoe-shaped cofferdam to protect the site from rising waters. Site unseen: Floodwaters buried a treasure trove at Marmes Rockshelter 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson abandoned his re-election quest after an escalation in the war led to more American deaths, while President Richard Nixon faced fierce criticism for expanding the conflict. Trump marks Veterans Day in Vietnam 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The bill would repeal a 63-year-old law credited to former President Lyndon Johnson when he served in the Senate. GOP bill allows churches to back candidates, keep tax status 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Not a sprawling coup d’état involving everyone from President Lyndon Johnson to the Pentagon architects of the Vietnam war to a cabal of gay rightwingers in New Orleans. Files will shed light on Kennedy shooting conspiracy – but not the one you think 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The legislation creating Medicare, for example, which was signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, was first introduced eight years earlier and studied and debated extensively. Senate Republicans unsure what their healthcare bill would do, even as they push ahead on it 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson, First Lady Jackie Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, French president Charles DeGaulle, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro all privately concluded that JFK was killed by his political enemies, not by a lone assassin. Missing from the new JFK files: Batch of CIA records on Lee Harvey Oswald 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z A half a century ago, the United States took a major step forward when President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating Medicare. Most Americans want universal healthcare. What are we waiting for? | Bernie Sanders 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “If we understand it, if we plan for it, if we apply it well, automation will not be a job destroyer or a family displaced,” President Lyndon Johnson said at the time. Amazon’s robots: job destroyers or dance partners? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z He also recalls receiving a phone call from President Lyndon Johnson, who wanted to know whether the reports he was receiving were accurate. Rep. John Conyers on Detroit in 1967: 'I Couldn't Stop It' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z A month later, President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek reelection in an America where opposition to the war and trust in the government were moving inversely. Opinion | When Americans stopped trusting the government 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The 1967 riots prompted President Lyndon Johnson to launch an inquiry into the cause of the racial disorders. Newark riots recall era echoed by Black Lives Matter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson sent in thousands of air and ground forces in what was initially a popular move. Ken Burns returns to take on Vietnam – 'a war we have consciously ignored' 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Proposed and then signed by President Lyndon Johnson, the program was created to provide health care to low-income Americans. How the Senate Health Care Bill Could Hurt Medicaid Recipients 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z But the man at the top of the ticket, President Lyndon Johnson, had little incentive to accept RFK as his running mate. Opinion | Robert Kennedy: compassionate or vengeful, or both? 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, Kennedy and then President Lyndon Johnson foolishly agreed to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam. There’s a problem with trusting the generals to handle war 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z In April, 1965, the leaders of India and Pakistan, nations then on the brink of war, cancelled meetings with President Lyndon Johnson, and L.B.J. thought he knew why. What Kind of Loyalty Does a President Need? 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z In 2009, President Obama set the course for what would become the most productive Congress since President Lyndon Johnson as Democrats controlled the White House and Congress. Congress is on track with sweeping spending deal, but not much else 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is planning an audio-only release, “On Power,” drawing upon his years as an investigative journalist and his research into the lives of President Lyndon Johnson and municipal builder Robert Moses. All ears: Caro working on audio-only book 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The proposed Trump administration budget announced Wednesday would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, established by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as part of his Great Society agenda. The Trump budget would reverse JFK's idea of the president as arts patron in chief 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The corporation dates to the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. Public Broadcasters Fear ‘Collapse’ if U.S. Drops Support 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Since its creation as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society agenda in the 1960s, Medicaid has grown to become a robust safety net program for poor Americans, providing health care for 74 million people. The Adults a Medicaid Work Requirement Would Leave Behind 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson drew on his early experiences teaching disadvantaged Mexican-Americans in stressing the importance of education and economic opportunity for all Americans. No matter the issue, Trump knows a guy 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z It is named after Democratic former President Lyndon Johnson and is an important statutory barrier between politics and religion. Trump vows to end prohibition on church political activity 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Bryan Cranston, honored for playing President Lyndon Johnson in HBO’s “All the Way,” offered wry guidance for the new U.S. president. ‘Stranger Things’ is upset winner of SAG Awards’ TV prize 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson shut the CIA out of his deliberations for his first two and half years in office. Trump’s relationship with the CIA is the “worst of any incoming administration” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's tenure tells a rosier story for equities investors. For stock performance under Trump, don't look to prior transitions 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The reactor operated until 1963 and President Lyndon Johnson dedicated it as a Registered National Historic Landmark three years later. Idaho museum to open for nuclear reactor’s 65th anniversary 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z When inflation began to bubble up in the mid-1960s, President Lyndon Johnson threw his formidable weight into stopping it. When Presidents Defy Economic Gravity, Gravity Usually Wins 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z This is potentially the most important development for local news and information since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which helped establish NPR, PBS and their many local affiliates and programs. Hyperlocal is hyper-screwed: Our last, best chance to reinvent local news 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z I also felt a sense of justice in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Why a Woman President Won't Mean Women Won 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The new ad features the same woman who, as a small girl, plucked petals from a flower in the original ad for President Lyndon Johnson’s campaign, which was aimed at Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. Clinton campaign accuses FBI director of ‘double standard’ in email probe 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson reportedly used more than 75 pens to sign the landmark Civil Rights Act in 1964. Has the hand-written signature had its day? - BBC News 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Just days before the election, President Lyndon Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations. 2016’s October surprise: Sexting, groping, FBI investigation 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z That was intentional: The group announced during the week that its name was derived from a poem about World War II that President Lyndon Johnson read during the famed “Daisy” ad from 1964. Singing Hillary Clinton’s Praises, in Morgan Freeman’s Voice 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The threat of nuclear war was also a central theme to the 1964 “Daisy” ad by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. Anti-Trump Ad Warns Ohio Voters With Mushroom Cloud 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The very next day, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, an implacable soldier in the Cold War, but a man who also loved all things space, sent President Lyndon Johnson a personal letter of sorrow: How Even a Failed Mars Landing Humanizes Us All 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The mobile defibrillator was used to treat US President Lyndon Johnson when he suffered a heart attack in Virginia in 1972. Frank Pantridge, the 'father of emergency medicine' - BBC News 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson soundly defeated Goldwater, who returned to the Senate. Phyllis Schlafly 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Even President Lyndon Johnson bought at least 60 for White House staffers to use as stress-relieving devices. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The premium cable network’s come-dies “Veep” and “Silicon Valley” earned 17 and 10 nominations, respectively, while its original movie“All the Way,” starring Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Johnson, picked up eight. Yes, HBO dominates this year's Emmy nominations, but FX is closing in and so are streaming series 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Humphrey had brought bottomless energy and impressive experience but was too often elbowed aside by President Lyndon Johnson. Why the Running-Mate Picks Matter 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Although Goldwater was subsequently trounced in the general election by President Lyndon Johnson, his influence lived on in the policies pursued by Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes. Donald Trump is no Goldwater: There’s a chance, however slim, that he could win 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The developer also started building public housing projects after President Lyndon Johnson enacted the Housing and Urban Development Act in 1965, which provided low-income tenants with rent subsidies. Jona Goldrich, Holocaust survivor and Southland real estate tycoon, dies at 88 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z At home, he was regarded with suspicion, even fear and loathing by President Lyndon Johnson, and as a possible rival in the upcoming presidential elections and the U.S. Enduring Ripples of Hope 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z What was President Lyndon Johnson thinking when he uttered that statement? Florida editorial roundup 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Safer’s expose ignited a firestorm, with President Lyndon Johnson giving CBS President Frank Stanton a tongue-lashing. Morley Safer, veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent, dies at 84 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It won a George Polk award and an angry phone call to CBS News from President Lyndon Johnson. Memorable stories done by CBS’ Morley Safer 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Obama was interviewed with Bryan Cranston, the actor who has received critical acclaim for playing President Lyndon Johnson on Broadway and in a new HBO movie "All the Way." Obama, Not Trump, May Be the True Celebrity Politician 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Bill Moyers – one of those liberals who knows things and isn’t shy about showing it – remembers that when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he was “euphoric.” We must shame dumb Trump fans: The white working class are not victims 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z And it didn’t matter that attorney Arthur Krim, the head of United Artists and the Democratic Party treasurer, met with President Lyndon Johnson to secure a proposed military service arrangement preferential to Ali. Muhammad Ali defied the draft -- and polarized the nation -- 49 years ago today 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Kissinger, according to local media reports, said President Lyndon Johnson wanted to end the war but the North Vietnamese refused to compromise and this violated Johnson's "notions of peace." Ghosts of Vietnam Still Haunt America 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “An example for the Nation” is how President Lyndon Johnson imagined Washington’s Metro, in a letter that he wrote fifty years ago to an official involved in planning it. Inside America’s Infrastructure Problem 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson appointed her to the court in 1968, and she was among the first women to sit on any federal appeals court. Shirley Hufstedler, a federal appellate court judge who served as the nation's first education secretary, has died 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The massive defeats of Republicans in the Midwest and Northeast that year provided President Lyndon Johnson with historic Democrat majorities in Congress. What Happened Last Time a Political Party Establishment Was Challenged 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Since 1966, when it was signed, with misgivings, by President Lyndon Johnson, the act has been making primary sources available to citizens who want to find out for themselves what their government has been doing. Editorials from around New York 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Goldwater went on to lose the general election overwhelmingly to incumbent Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. The Righteous Tantrum Scenario 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Hinton, an assistant professor of African and African-American studies at Harvard, argues that the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, a champion of civil rights, set the stage for expanded incarceration. The Costs of Inequality: Goal Is Justice, but Reality Is Unfairness 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z For example: Fortas was a confidante of President Lyndon Johnson but turned down his entreaties to accept a Supreme Court seat. How Supreme Court nominations became so contentious 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z King had begun speaking of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society - the president’s lifelong dream to revitalize our big cities, protect natural resources and guarantee educational opportunities for all. Black history: AP reporter’s new memoir recalls covering MLK 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The building played host to Carnival balls, high school proms and a 1964 appearance by President Lyndon Johnson. Historic Jung Hotel to undergo full redevelopment 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z They included President Lyndon Johnson, finishing a lunch of hamburgers and fruit at Camp David in Maryland. The first Super Bowl, in L.A. in 1967, wasn't even called the Super Bowl and gave little hint of game's future impact 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson was sipping a diet cola on Air Force One, en route to San Antonio, when his secretary Marie Fehmer noticed that he was fidgety and at a loss for what to do. What the CIA Told JFK and LBJ About Mao 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The Republican takeover of the South is understood by scholars as a reaction to whites’ sense of betrayal following the Democratic push for desegregation under President Lyndon Johnson. Racial Identity, and Its Hostilities, Return to American Politics 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z In signing that act, President Lyndon Johnson identified poverty as the “greatest barrier” to educational opportunity, and under Title I provided $US1 billion for schools with large numbers of poor children. Why Every Student Succeeds Act Still Leaves Most Vulnerable Kids Behind 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z A year later, police clashed with thousands of Vietnam War demonstrators when President Lyndon Johnson spoke at a Democratic fundraiser at the hotel. $2.5-billion makeover of Century Plaza Hotel is set to start in March 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson’s so-called War on Poverty didn’t angle to take anything from the rich so that the poor could see equality. Income inequality happens by design. We can't fix it by tweaking capitalism | Steven W Thrasher 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z The movie "Selma" didn't tell its story right, the buzz went; it unfairly portrayed President Lyndon Johnson. To get ahead in movie awards season, rivals argue facts and defend truths 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Mrs. Rappel told him it could be funny, so he decided to go that route with a poem about President Lyndon Johnson, who was then overseeing the Vietnam War. EXCHANGE: Best-selling children’s author gives writing tips 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Speaking at Howard University 50 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson observed that it is not enough to tear down the legal barriers to opportunity. Not There Yet on Equal Opportunity 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The Southern Strategy came about during the Civil Rights era, particularly after the President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Death of the Reagan revolution: Why the Southern Strategy is beginning to come undone 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson in “LBJ: The Early Years.” Randy Quaid to face fugitive charge in Vermont 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson was quick to arrive and tour devastated New Orleans. 2015: notable year for hurricane anniversaries in Louisiana 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The poverty rate in 1965 was 17.3 percent, when the “war on poverty” announced by President Lyndon Johnson began to be implemented; Watts noted that in 2010 it was 15 percent. Ben Carson’s claim that ‘we have 10 times more people on welfare’ since the 1960s 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z On the Fair’s opening day, President Lyndon Johnson gave a speech inside the Singer Bowl. Grand finale: US Open's irreplaceable Grandstand readies for the wrecking ball 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z That was President Lyndon Johnson describing the need to renew inner cities as he announced the creation of the U.S. At 50, This Housing Policy Needs a Big Renovation 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Just as President Lyndon Johnson, whom everyone expected to run for re-election, symbolized the Democratic establishment then, Hillary Clinton does now. Coming Soon to a Primary Season Near You: 1968, Take 2 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z When President Lyndon Johnson included the arts and humanities in his Great Society vision, it was expressly to spread access to them. New director of Hirshhorn snubs D.C. to hold 40th-anniversary gala in New York 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, legislation he would later identify as the most important of his political career. The Unfortunate Evolution of the Voting Rights Act 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating these two ambitious national health programs on July 30, 1965. Medicaid Expansion Would Save Money And Create A Healthier Nation 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z It was 50 years ago Thursday, on July 30, 1965, that President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare bill, turning the national social security healthcare program for older Americans into law. How Medicare Came into Existence 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In four days, President Lyndon Johnson would sign it into law. In 1965, Experts Warned of Medicare-Induced Crisis 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He even voted for President Lyndon Johnson, he said. For veterans, annual trout-fishing outing a kind of therapy 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Months before President Lyndon Johnson signed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, which created the agency that would later become the N.H.T.S.A., Laws Hinder Prosecutors in Charging G.M. Employees in Ignition Defect 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z These voters were simply embracing what they thought were anti-establishment candidates, and since RFK was challenging President Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic nomination, he was, by definition, an insurgent. Donald Trump illuminates the GOP’s dark soul 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z At a time when newsroom diversity is still depressingly low, the fact remains that news organizations were called upon to hire more black reporters nearly 50 years ago by President Lyndon Johnson. Media might finally start giving Black Twitter the recognition it deserves 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z His relationship with President Lyndon Johnson, already frayed, fractured completely. Charleston exposes ugliest truth of our time: Our society places little value on black life 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z No man who knowingly and dishonestly took a nation to war is worthy of any kind of honor, hence history's reluctance to focus on the substantive accomplishments of President Lyndon Johnson. Bob Woodward: Bush Didn't Lie to Start Iraq War 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty more than 50 years ago, and the recent statistics show the extent of the problem today. Pope Francis' Poverty Agenda Draws President Obama 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z A letter from President Lyndon Johnson to Coretta Scott King connects these two figures. Why This Lyndon Johnson Letter Sold For (Only) $60,000 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A condolence letter from President Lyndon Johnson to the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. following the civil rights leader's 1968 assassination is set to be auctioned on Thursday after a legal battle. U.S. president's letter to Martin Luther King's widow to be auctioned 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A week after Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, as well as seventy million Americans watching on television. What America Has Lost Since Selma 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law. Why the GOP Should Stop Worry About Voter Fraud and Learn to Love Voting Rights 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The legislation, pushed by President Lyndon Johnson, removed all barriers preventing African-Americans from registering as voters. Obama hails Selma march 'heroes' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z “What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of America,” said President Lyndon Johnson. 50 years after Selma, America retreats on civil rights 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z On March 21, 1965, with a pledge to pass new voting rights legislation from President Lyndon Johnson, 2,000 marchers left Selma with the protection of the U.S. 5 things you might not know about the Selma marches 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z At least, that’s how it’s been since President Lyndon Johnson set the policy in place 47 years ago. Robert Redford's message to Obama: Time to kill Keystone for good 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Like President Lyndon Johnson, he leans imposingly into a group of men, invading their space, telling a private joke that makes everyone laugh. In Nevada, cowboy commissioner rides a career as a political maverick 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Change did follow — the Voting Rights Act, signed into law in August 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson, prohibited racial discrimination at the polls — but the vision behind it has been only partially realized. Along the Selma march route, progress has been two steps forward, one back 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Obama: In October of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson traveled to a military base in New Mexico to review a top secret weapons program. Obama's Awkward Farewell to Hagel 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson was particularly known for being insecure about his hardscrabble Texas upbringing and education. No College Degree? Maybe You Can Still Be President 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z And yes, the cartoonish portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson bugged me. Despite LBJ Portrayal, 'Selma' Shows Role of Strategy to Effect Change 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Ex-Johnson aides and even civil rights activists have criticized Selma’s portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson as overly harsh and historically inaccurate. 'Selma' Offers a Window Into the Civil Rights Movement But he said he would agree with criticism that the movie contains a few historical inaccuracies, including how it portrays President Lyndon Johnson. Alabama officials give reviews of movie “Selma” 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z As President Lyndon Johnson said when speaking of Edward R. Murrow a half-century ago: “Truth and personal integrity are the ultimate persuaders of men and nations.” Journalists killed for dedication to the truth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z After deadly Viet Cong attacks on U.S. military facilities in South Vietnam in early February 1965, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the dispatch of the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam. Top 10 Anniversaries in 2015 On March 15th, only seven days after Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon Johnson spoke to Congress and delivered one of the most meaningful and powerful speeches any modern president has made on civil and voting rights. Rep. John Lewis: An Oral History of Selma and the Struggle for the Voting Rights Act 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z This is the core principle, the Golden Rule, that animated the racial debate during Kennedy's time and, for a while, during the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. Obama’s Balancing Act on Race Isn’t Working 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z He won a Golden Globe award - which he brought to court during one of his appearances in the innkeeper case - for his depiction of President Lyndon Johnson in a TV movie in the late 1980s. Without passports, actor Quaid and wife grounded 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z After President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly told a fellow Democrat that the party had lost the South for a long time to come. Demise of the Southern Democrat Is Now Nearly Complete 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Yerxa’s writing had been done in his previous journalistic life, such as a 1964 New York Times story in which he covered President Lyndon Johnson in Detroit, addressing a campaign crowd of 100,000. Fendall Yerxa, former news anchor, UW professor, dies at 101 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z After leaving the Air Force, Broughton weighed heavy criticism on the Pentagon and President Lyndon Johnson for mismanagement of the war. Outspoken combat fighter pilot Broughton dies 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z And his landslide defeat by President Lyndon Johnson was thought at the time to represent a sweeping repudiation of conservatism. Why Ronald Reagan’s ‘A Time for Choosing’ endures after all this time Fifty years ago last week, President Lyndon Johnson received the final report of the commission he had appointed, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate President Kennedy’s assassination. L.B.J.’s Bravado and a Secret Service Under Scrutiny 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The Wildness Act, which protects land throughout the country’s wild places, was signed in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. Vermont to mark anniversary of Wildness Act 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago, on Sept. 7, 1964, a political ad called “Daisy” aired on behalf of President Lyndon Johnson. LBJ’s 1964 attack ad ‘Daisy’ leaves a legacy for modern campaigns President Lyndon Johnson’s longtime chief aide, Walter Jenkins, had been jailed in what The New York Times, on its front page, called a “morals case.” The Earth Stood Still, but the Game Played On 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z President Lyndon Johnson, who had taken office nine months earlier following Kennedy’s death, was expected to easily clinch the nomination. Atlantic City and the precursor to the Voting Rights Act 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Since its signing by President Lyndon Johnson, the law has set aside 110 million acres for the highest level of federal protection. Speed hiking through nature 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “Bloody Sunday” inspired thirty thousand to march with King to Montgomery and compelled President Lyndon Johnson to throw the full weight of the White House behind the movement. How Do We Define Racial Equality in the Age of Obama? Five days before the election, President Lyndon Johnson announced the halt, hoping to convene peace talks. Richard Nixon’s long shadow Already by the mid-1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson led America into the Vietnam war, Japan maximized its opportunities on both sides. The EU's New Russia Sanctions Look Tough, But How Rigorously Will They Be Enforced? 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Unlike President Lyndon Johnson, he was not able to turn his victories into a posture that allowed him to bully members of Congress from either party. The Millennials' Moment: Why 2014 Does Matter 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z In the wake of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act, the Republican Party welcomed segregationists who no longer felt comfortable in the Democratic Party. The real party of civil rights 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z That same week, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the Senate and was on its way to President Lyndon Johnson for his signature. ‘Think They Got Killed?’ 1964, L.B.J. and Three Civil Rights Icons 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The law, signed by President Lyndon Johnson less than two weeks later, outlawed racial discrimination in education and employment as well as racially segregated schools, buses, and swimming pools. 7 Things to Know About Passage of the Civil Rights Act 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z While President Lyndon Johnson wielded a mighty whip to get things done and President Bill Clinton triangulated around his foes, Mr. Obama sees no way to lead. CURL: A desperate president spews bitterness, pessimism 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Although not one of the original founders, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr, a former economist for President Lyndon Johnson and the son of a powerful congressman, rose to become the firm's chairman. Takeover shores up U.S. lobbying giant Patton Boggs 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Interestingly, Coates's story launched the same day as the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. The 'Case for Reparations' is solid, and it's long past time to make them 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z One week after Selma, President Lyndon Johnson took to the airwaves to announce that he planned to submit legislation that would bring African Americans into the civic life of our nation. GOP’s shameful decline on race: While Bush celebrated Voting Rights Act, DeMint’s ignorance now reigns 2014-04-15T17:02:00Z House said, referring to the flowers Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, had planted as part of her plan to make highways beautiful. White House book features stories about kids 2014-02-11T22:32:57Z It was an explicit metaphor for the quagmire of Vietnam and the escalation policy of President Lyndon Johnson, each verse but the last ending with the bitter, “The big fool said to push on.” My unforgettable meeting with Pete Seeger 2014-01-29T13:15:00Z When President Lyndon Johnson declared his war on poverty on Jan. 8, 1964, almost exactly 50 years ago, 19 percent of Americans were poor. In the War on Poverty, a Dogged Adversary 2013-12-17T23:46:14Z In 1964, a member of the Warren Commission, set up by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination of his predecessor, called Phenix's footage "that famous film that catches Ruby moving forward and the wrestling." Oswald in lens, Ruby at his shoulder as Texas cameraman filmed history 2013-11-16T01:25:33Z One week after Selma, President Lyndon Johnson took to the airwaves to announce that he planned to submit legislation that would bring African Americans into the civic life of our nation. GOP’s shameful decline on race: While Bush celebrated Voting Rights Act, DeMint’s ignorance now reigns 2014-04-15T17:02:00Z President Lyndon Johnson declared the 27.5-acre island to be part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum opened in the island's main building in 1990. U.S. immigration landmark Ellis Island to reopen, a year after Sandy 2013-10-24T15:43:18Z In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson asserted the government’s responsibility to alleviate the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Economic Scene: Say Goodbye to the Government, Under Either Fiscal Plan 2012-12-18T23:21:21Z McGovern, however, would continue to publicly support the actions of President Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, including voting in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, authorizing the escalation of the war. The American Quixote: The Death of George McGovern (1922-2012) 2012-10-21T14:35:35Z He was in the room on 9 September 1966 when US President Lyndon Johnson signed the Highway Safety Act of 1966, requiring seatbelts in all new cars sold in the US. Five daredevils who helped science 2012-10-15T12:51:35Z One famous commercial put on by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 suggested that if his opponent became president, he might start a war that would destroy the world! Best campaign ads sell the 2012 presidential candidates 2012-10-12T15:10:42Z That low point came after President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, launched in 1964, that created Medicaid, Medicare and other social welfare programs. U.S. poverty highest in nearly 50 years 2012-07-23T11:17:00Z The Paycheck Fairness Act would bring up to date the Equal Pay Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson nearly 50 years ago. Wonkbook: The 4 policymakers who could decide the 2012 election 2012-05-24T12:07:21Z BILL | For the past 30 years, author Robert Caro has been working on a five-volume biography of one man: President Lyndon Johnson. 5 Everyday Lessons From LBJ 2012-05-15T12:20:00Z He was secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Carter administration and chief domestic policy aide to President Lyndon Johnson. Why Pat Robertson?s pot plan is a (bong) pipe dream 2012-03-09T21:58:44Z In 1968, Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s strong second-place finish helped galvanize opposition to the Vietnam War and push President Lyndon Johnson from the race. As voters demand face time, New Hampshire guards tradition of first presidential primary 2012-01-10T07:28:15Z Holder, a Democratic appointee, is scheduled to deliver the speech at a library named for President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the 1965 voting law. New state laws threaten U.S. voting rights: Holder 2011-12-13T23:02:59Z President Lyndon Johnson wanted a multi-head, high-pressure shower that required serious plumbing work, according to a memoir by former usher J.B. Angella Reid, new White House usher, brings Jamaican charm to demanding job with quaint title 2011-10-23T14:15:27Z While 24 cities vie for the title of the first Memorial Day celebration, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed Waterloo, New York, the birthplace in 1966. Memorial Day had its beginnings in Civil War 2011-05-29T18:57:28Z Thanks to a law first crafted for Texas-born President Lyndon Johnson, he was able to run for the House and the presidency at the same time in 2008. Ron Paul announces third presidential run 2011-05-13T12:10:00Z President Lyndon Johnson vetoed or impounded billions, including planned spending by fellow Democrats on housing, agriculture and highways. Obama Needs Navy SEALs to Target Budget Next: Amity Shlaes 2011-05-09T23:21:40Z To veto one budget bill, he used the very fountain pen that President Lyndon Johnson had used to sign Medicare into law. Obama Needs Clinton Rerun to Gain in Stalemate: Michael Waldman 2011-03-03T00:03:53Z But the year after Evers' assassination, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Medgar Evers' assassination in 1963 inspired Bill Russell to offer help in Mississippi 2011-02-20T02:56:36Z President Lyndon Johnson took Fannie Mae off the books by privatizing it in the late 1960s amid mounting deficits during the Vietnam war. Key Republican urges faster Fannie, Freddie sell-off 2011-02-07T20:47:46Z Boomers will enter Medicare in numbers that will test the financial resources of a program signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson. Medicare ranks will swell for next 18 years 2011-01-18T17:02:03Z Shriver devoted his life to public service, leading President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and establishing social programs that included Head Start and Legal Services for the Poor. Sargent Shriver, Kennedy In-Law, Peace Corps Founder, Dies at 95 2011-01-19T05:05:15Z He devoted his life to public service, leading President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and founding social programs including Head Start and Legal Services for the Poor. Shriver, Kennedy Kin, Peace Corps Founder, Dies, AP Reports 2011-01-18T22:36:01Z He devoted his life to public service, leading President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and establishing social programs that included Head Start and Legal Services for the Poor. Sargent Shriver, Kennedy Kin, Peace Corps Founder, Dies at 95 2011-01-18T22:48:50Z While best known for his family connections, Shriver also was notable as the Peace Corps' first director and then as the leader of President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty." Son: Ex-V.P. Nominee Sargent Shriver Dies at 95 2011-01-18T21:50:00Z To cite just a few examples: In 1967, the House resisted President Lyndon Johnson’s bid to raise the ceiling from $336 billion, as the Republican minority won over enough Democrats to oppose the president. Boehner Should Win This Round of Default Chicken: Kevin Hassett 2011-01-18T02:03:44Z President Lyndon Johnson American political advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry these days. Best sellers 2011-01-03T16:44:13Z President Lyndon Johnson, who had pushed through a watered-down civil rights bill as the Senate's majority leader back in 1957, did too. Dittoheads, race and denial 2010-11-17T12:01:00Z Nine days after President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill into law on Sept. Prudential profits from slain soldiers with help from taxpayers 2010-10-01T13:56:00Z He had, however, been pushed onto the stage to put a public face on the American war effort by President Lyndon Johnson, who was desperate to buck up public opinion. Will our generals ever shut up? 2010-09-07T20:01:00Z In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson's administration produced a government propaganda film solely in response to that question, which was already threatening to drive down his polling figures and upend his Great Society at home. What if we actually "win" Afghanistan? 2010-07-12T22:45:00Z When President Lyndon Johnson pushed through the Tonkin Gulf resolution—essentially a blank check for escalation in Vietnam—his poll numbers shot up some 30 percent. Beinart's 'Icarus Syndrome': We Are Too Ambitious 2010-05-31T00:00:00Z He won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson in 1980s TV movie LBJ: The Early Years. Quaid jailed after court no-show 2010-04-27T08:42:00Z The trip was over rutted dirt roads that have not been maintained since the days of President Lyndon Johnson when the United States was competing with the Russians for influence with the Congolese. Low-Tech Solutions For The Congo 2010-04-15T10:00:00Z Under incessant pressure from President Lyndon Johnson, Congress passed the Civil Right Act and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and then the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Gains in the 1960s Made Obama's Election Possible 2010-03-10T22:00:00Z Originally requested by then Vice President Lyndon Johnson in his capacity as chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Employment in June 1962, the reports were continued after the Gesell Committee disbanded. 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