President Lyndon Johnson (seated, center) shakes hands with members of the Kerner Commission. July 29, 1967. Yet, according to a poll later that same month, a majority of white Americans rejected ...

President Lyndon Johnson (seated, center) shakes hands with members of the Kerner Commission. July 29, 1967. White House Photo Office Collection, LBJ Presidential Library. What differentiated the ...

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.

On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a crowd ... undergraduate class president in 1964, Lowenstein was seated just behind Johnson as he spoke and said he could see the phrase ...

It was at the end of a nearly 40-minute televised speech that President Lyndon Johnson shocked the nation with his words: “With American sons in the field far away, I do not believe that I ...

Lyndon B. Johnson had won the 1964 election in one of the greatest landslides of American history. By 1968, however, the war in Vietnam — and the rising inflation that accompanied it — had ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...