Alton Telegraph on MSN
January 8, Lyndon Johnson declares ‘war on poverty’
On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in ...
Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 22, 1973, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at his Texas ranch of a heart attack at age 64. He left the ...
Conversations between MLK and President Johnson foreshadow Obama's election. Jan. 17, 2010— -- As the USA celebrates the first King holiday with a black president, University of Virginia scholars ...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - Sixty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri, to sign a groundbreaking piece of legislation into law: the creation of Medicare ...
A gunman assassinated President Kennedy from ambush Friday with a high-powered rifle. Nearly 12 hours later, a 24-year-old ...
Worcester Telegram on MSN
Shaking hands with LBJ: 60 years later, Michael Howlett recalls encounter with a president
Kennedy's successor, LBJ, was honoring a commitment by Kennedy to deliver the commencement speech at the College of the Holy ...
Political biographers have written about the Kennedy successor's predilection to "showing off" his generous endowment to those around him Tailors, plumbers, journalists and aides were among the many ...
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