April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in ... racial gap in median income has improved only slightly since LBJ's 1965 speech. The median ...
For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million ... s hopes of ever succeeding Johnson on his own. Democrats abandoned the President in droves, forming Dump-L.B.J. movements or rallying behind Gene McCarthy ...
Such sentiment likely led to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision not to fund ... During his 1964 State of the Union speech, LBJ gave Congress the task of declaring an “all-out war on ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...
President Donald Trump is shaking up the nation regarding DEI. According to a report by CBS News — Trump’s Jan. 21st order revokes the Equal Employment Opportunity rule signed by ...
President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights. Examples of Kennedy’s actions are: Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president ...
Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Address to Congress on ... We must preserve the right of free speech and the right of free assembly. But the right of free speech does not carry with it ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...