Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

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, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice ...