Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson enjoyed large-scale public sympathy following the assassination of his predecessor, ... Nelson Rockefeller Remarries // 1964 Presidential Election.

In February 1965, three months after Barry Goldwater had been trounced by Lyndon B. Johnson in the presidential election, one of the Republican candidate’s most forceful advocates, William F ...

In 1966, Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo, New York, as the birthplace of Memorial Day after Gov. Nelson Rockefeller made a similar declaration that same year.

Despite conflicting claims, the U.S. Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo, New York, as the “birthplace” of Memorial Day on May 30, 1966, after Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's ...

Rocky's Road? Highly placed, Nixon-minded Republican politicos whistle in the dark that New York's governor Nelson Rockefeller, 50, will bow gracefully out of a 1960 contest with Vice ...

LYNDON JOHNSON'S renunciation of a second term as President dumfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming. It was not included in the advance text of ...

Everything changed when Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. The grieving nation rallied around Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy's vice president, who vowed to carry out the slain president's ...

Other candidates, noncandidates and candidates-apparent: ¶Richard Nixon, ready for his official announcement in February, unleashed his strongest attack yet on the Johnson Administration. On ...

National security, said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson to his Democratic caucus, is the issue that will "dominate the Congresses of free men for lifetimes to come." And the ...

Addressing the New York state legislature, Nelson Rockefeller sounded every bit as frugal as Lyndon Johnson. Urging fiscal austerity, Rocky promised a balanced budget with “no increase in taxes ...

It will not be a very merry Christmas for Lyndon Johnson, ... And New York’s Nelson Rockefeller cracked after one private seminar: “The 1964 scars didn’t even show.

At the height of the 1964 race between Arizona’s junior senator, Barry Goldwater, and President Lyndon Johnson, the cover headline of Fact magazine’s September–October issue practically screamed: ...