News on Lyndon Johnson

Beagle

2010-11-30T13:26:46Z

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The rhetorical styles of JFK and LBJ

2010-11-29T15:43:04Z

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Biography: Lyndon Johnson

2010-11-29T16:00:49Z

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The USA's 47 Vice Presidents: John Adams to Joe Biden, 1789-2009

2010-11-02T18:38:19Z

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Fascist States of America

2010-11-03T00:07:34Z

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LBJ

2010-11-02T18:37:52Z

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How Many United States Presidents were Senators First?

2010-11-05T11:14:02Z

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Former Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz dies at 98

2010-04-25T13:30:10Z

W. Willard Wirtz, labor secretary to JFK, LBJ, dies at 98; broke with Johnson over Vietnam

W. Willard Wirtz, a lawyer and labor arbitrator who was labor secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations but broke publicly with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam, has died.

Wirtz, 98, died Saturday of n...

Campaign Finance Reform... Or Revolution?

2010-10-05T23:44:39Z

... or Eradicating the Rats from Our Congress!

When I was a little boy, we lived in rural Missouri, about 30 miles outside of St. Louis. We lived there until I was nine years old. We lived in a small town, but the world was, for me, a very big place filled with wonders and bulging at the seams, with hope and possibility. In spite of the veiled threat of nuclear war between the Soviets and Americans our government made us feel safe. Even though we had regular "duck ...

A&S Interview: Joe Chappell

2010-11-03T08:49:09Z

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Joe Chappell

2010-11-03T08:49:05Z

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Subject Lyndon Johnson

2010-10-26T23:16:34Z

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Firstdogs

2010-10-26T21:33:38Z

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How U.S. Presidents Have Fared as Investors

2010-10-23T23:36:19Z

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Past Presidential Elections Far Nastier

2010-10-26T12:02:52Z

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The Rise of Lyndon Johnson

2010-10-23T09:46:24Z

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The Complete History of Dirty Politics: A Q&A on Anything for a Vote

2010-11-02T13:59:56Z

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Even presidents get bad grades in school

2010-09-08T23:47:12Z

Youthful Days of Past Presidents Are the Subject of Exhibit at the National Archives

Any kid can grow up to be president. Just look at their report cards. Lyndon Johnson got a D in his third-grade grammar class. John Kennedy scored a 55 in eighth-grade Latin. George H.W. Bush's high scho...

US Presidents Behind Closed Doors

2010-11-30T07:01:03Z

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 1965, file photo U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds the signed Voting Rights Act as he chats with Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., center, in the President's Room in Washington. Meetings between presidents and congressional leaders of both parties used to be hum drum, says Mort Walker, the artist and author of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, speaks in his Stamford, Conn., studio about his decades of work, in this case a caricature he and other cartoonists drew of President Lyndon Johnson (Walk...

Luci Baines Johnson Hospitalized

2010-04-17T13:30:47Z

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2008 file photo, Luci Baines Johnson, left, and her sister, Lynda Johnson Robb talk during ceremonies to commemorate the 100th birthday of their father, former president Lyndon Baines Johnson at the family cemetery on the

Science of Laughter

2010-06-25T23:18:02Z

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1967 file photo, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, munching on a cookie, and George Meany, president of AFL-CIO, laugh at a speaker's remark during the first annual Jewish Labor Committee Human Rights Awards dinner at the President Lyndon B. Johnson uses the last of many pens to complete the signing of the Medicare Bill into law at ceremonies at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, July 30, 1965, with former President Harry S. Truman at his side. At rear a...