Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six months after leaving the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to attend a launch, ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Rita Braver is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning," where she reports on everything from arts and culture to politics and foreign ...

WASHINGTON (CBS/CBS Newspath) - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law this weekend, 56 years ago. As the landmark legislation is again being debated, Johnson's daughter is ...

FILE - This August 1967 file photo shows President Lyndon B. Johnson. A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give Johnson, ...

Among the opening lines of CNN’s irresistible “LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy,” none is more striking than the one from a civil-rights activist who says, “We saw the assassination of Kennedy”—JFK, she means ...

Will Biden have an LBJ moment and bow out? When then-President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not run again in 1968, it rocked American politics. With President Biden facing calls to step aside ...

The first Democrat in Congress to go public urging President Biden to end his reelection campaign this month cited a potent historical precedent — the decision by President Lyndon B. Johnson to ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965, voting rights speech is an important reminder of the power of moral suasion when applied in support of basic democratic ...

While former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton may be the poster boys for White House sex scandals, it's possible that Lyndon B. Johnson had even more NSFW moments in the Oval Office. The ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Friday marks the late President Lyndon B. Johnson’s birthday. Now at 74 years of age, his daughter feels a sense of urgency to renew the push for voting rights in Texas and the ...

The civil rights movement has always been very personal to us. We grew up witnessing Jim Crow laws. We saw separate schools, water fountains, toilets and restaurant entrances and segregated seating in ...

Editor’s Note: Martin Luther King, III, is Chairman of the Drum Major Institute, an organization that seeks to inspire individuals to embrace their unique contribution to peace, justice and equity for ...