Lyndon B. Johnson

Proclamation 3869, issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson, established National Hispanic Heritage Week to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States in culture, business, science, and military service. The week was timed to coincide with the independence anniversaries of…

This presidential proclamation, issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson, designated October 12th of each year as Columbus Day to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of America. In his proclamation, Johnson noted Columbus's vision, courage, and symbolism as a figure representing…

<p>President Johnson shocked the nation when he ended his bid for reelection in 1968. As early as 1964, Lady Bird had suggested that he might not want to run for a second term.</p>

<p><span class="deck">In the bright mestizo tapestry of Mexico’s thirty centuries of civilization, the Indian, the Spanish, and the modern threads interweave—and tangle</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Senator’s View</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Era of Hubert H. Humprey</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The former First Lady looks back on the years with Lyndon and discusses her life today</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A century after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern blacks still were denied the vote. In 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr, set out to change that—by marching through the heart of Alabama.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A distinguished journalist and former presidential adviser says that, to find the meaning of any news story, we must dig for its roots in the past.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A routine chore for JFK’s official photographer became the most important assignment of his career. Much of his moving pictorial record appears here for the first time.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A year ago, we were in the midst of a presidential campaign most memorable for charges by both sides that the opponent was not hard enough, tough enough, masculine enough. That he was, in fact, a sissy. Both sides also admitted that this sort of rhetoric was deplorable. But it’s been going on since the beginning of the republic.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An hour and a half of growing astonishment in the presence of the President of the United States, as recorded by a witness who now publishes a record of it for the first time</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The naturalist Aldo Leopold not only gave the wilderness idea its most persuasive articulation; he offered a way of thinking that turned the entire history of land use on its head.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Johnsons and the Kennedys are popularly thought to have shared a strong mutual dislike, but stacks of letters and a remarkable tape of Jacqueline Kennedy reminiscing show something very different and more interesting.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Seen in its proper historical context, amid the height of the Cold War, the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination looks much more impressive and its shortcomings much more understandable.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">And how it grew, and grew, and grew…</span></p>

<p><span class="body">Many of us had ghastly wounds or missing limbs from shrapnel, bullets, or fire. “I know just how you boys feel,” the president announced.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with the man who shot his plane down.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How bad is it when presidents get <span class="typestyle"> really</span> sore? </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Forty years ago, the USS <span class="typestyle"> Maddox</span> fought the first battle of America’s longest war. How it happened—and even <span class="typestyle"> if</span> it happened—are still fiercely debated. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Republican party ensured a landslide defeat when it nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964, but the Democrats did far more lasting damage to themselves at their convention in Atlantic City that year. In fact, they still haven’t recovered.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Although marred by the grisly murders of three young activists, the Freedom Summer of 1964 brought revolutionary changes to Mississippi and the nation.</span></p>

<p>The architect of American race relations in the 20th century, he ended legal segregation in the United States and became the first African-American on the Supreme Court.  </p>