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The broadcasting icon, whose resonant baritone guided Malaysians through the formative decades of nationhood, died yesterday ...
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.
The idea was for visitors to feel like they were standing in LBJ’s shoes, not to give folks the impression that he actually ...
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division After then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson broke a Southern filibuster and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act into law, the Department ...
For decades, official West Wing pictures were meant to chronicle history. Today, says Obama’s and Reagan’s photographer, they’re part of an Oval Office reality show.
Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led to Lyndon Johnson assuming the presidency in 1963.
The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965, voting rights speech is an important reminder of the power of moral suasion when applied in support of basic democratic ...
open image in gallery Donald Trump, pictured seated at the Resolute Desk last ... used the Resolute Desk at all in the West Wing: Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, according to ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...
Next in line was the car bearing Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Behind that ... room and could accommodate eight to ten people seated. I wedged inside the door and began counting.
OGDEN — Lyndon Johnson stepped down as Ben Lomond’s head football coach following an 0-10 finish to his sixth season with the team. Ogden School District made the position publicly available ...
The rapt attention of two nations and the peoples of two hemispheres centered Saturday on El Paso and its border neighbor, Juarez, as President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ...