In a March 20, 1965, executive order, Lyndon Johnson cited a recent federal court order approving plans for activists to march from Selma to Montgomery on Highway 80. It would be the third ...

U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor called it a "tough area" that for years had vexed South Vietnamese fighters. Maxwell had long questioned the use of ground troops in the jungles of Vietnam. He resigned ...

On March 31, 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States, became a casually of the war in Vietnam, a war that started years before he became President but which, in his time of ...

Description. This lesson explores the first 100 days of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. The lesson, which features Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer, opens with ...

Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” isn’t a particularly short speech, but it is delivered with energy. It’s readily accessible. Read it, listen to it, watch it and see if you’re not ...

President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in the President's Room as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on, August 6, 1965. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto.

Finally, they provoked Lyndon Johnson beyond patience. The attack that started the escalator came on Feb. 7, following a week-long lull in the war while Vietnamese celebrated the lunar New Year.

Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson could hardly have had a more opportune week to start his Senate ... Army’s General Maxwell Taylor and Marine Corps’ General Randolph Pate ...

Lyndon Johnson, though he sometimes attends services at Episcopal, ... among those who frequently attend these days are Generals Omar Bradley and Maxwell Taylor. God Was There.

MAN OF THE YEAR (See Cover) There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear ...

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 ...

Agreed Maxwell Taylor: “This country is being tested as it never has been since the Civil War. ... Even Lyndon Johnson’s well-hedged hint of another bombing pause should raise no undue hopes.