With Republicans retaking the majority in the U.S. Senate this week, Texas Republican John Cornyn is in a position to fill a ...

Nixon on January 20, 1969, Lyndon Johnson returned to Texas, where his political career had begun nearly forty years before. He wrote his memoirs, The Vantage Point, taught students, and attended the ...

Donald Trump won the statewide popular vote in Nebraska for the third time, earning two electoral college votes. Nebraska's ...

Donald Trump has won North Dakota's three electoral votes, maintaining a long history of Republican wins in a state famed for ...

Election nights are always simultaneous moments of triumph and tragedy. One group of voters’ dreams are dashed, while another set of voters see their hopes realized.

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

In phone recordings you can hear the anger the 36th President of the United States had towards Shreveport, Louisiana. He even wants to shut down Barksdale AFB ...

The rapt attention of two nations and the peoples of two hemispheres centered Saturday on El Paso and its border neighbor, Juarez, as President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ...

The First Lady’s whistle-stop campaign trip came less than a month before her husband, President Lyndon B. Johnson, faced Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election.

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 ...

Johnson served as Vice President until the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd, 1963. Johnson, aboard Air Force One, was then sworn in as the 36th President of the ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...