President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from... Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a ...

Johnson between Hubert Humphrey (l) and Richard Russell. From The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. The first volume of Robert Caro’s protracted meditation on the dark side of Lyndon ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

When President Lyndon Johnson was a boy, his mother, Rebekah, always reminded him that having power is of no value unless it is used to help others. That was the philosophy Johnson held throughout his ...

v. 1. The path to power (c1982) -- v. 2. Means of ascent (c1990) -- v. 3. Master of the Senate (c2002) -- v. 4. Passage of power (c2012) v. 1. The path to power. pt. 1. The trap -- The Bunton strain - ...

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...