President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included key policies such as federal aid for education, Medicare for older ...

The city of Jackson is scheduled to host an inauguration event for Mayor-elect John Horhn and the city council.

When we witness the inauguration of the next President of the United States in about a year, the incoming POTUS will likely be sworn in using a special Bible. Some, like Lyndon B. Johnson, have ...

Lyndon Johnson hired Geri Whittington as his secretary because she was the most qualified. She was also the first Black woman to hold it and became a symbol of the Civil Rights Era.

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 ...

"Day of the Oath" captures the historic inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, reflecting on the significance of this event in American history. It highlights the tradition of ...

What with so many Texans present, it sometimes seemed as if it had been Jack Kennedy four years ago who really assembled the Great Society and Lyndon Johnson who was now opening up the New Frontier.

THE PRESIDENCY After the tension, the gaiety and the personal triumph of his inauguration came a letdown for Lyndon Johnson —and a scare. Wearing maroon pajamas and a navy-blue silk robe, the ...

THE PRESIDENCY Lyndon Johnson was poised for the biggest day of his life, his first pomp-and-ceremonial inauguration. The event would be all the more stirring because of the jarring contrast with ...

Following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson took his oath with a Roman Catholic prayer book that was already aboard Air Force One.

Lady Bird Johnson set a tradition that has continued until today when she became the first incoming-first lady to hold the Bible for her husband Lyndon’s second inauguration in January 1965.