Access these resources as a member - it's free! A brief summary of the life and career of Lyndon B. Johnson. A brief summary of the life and career of Lyndon B. Johnson. In a televised speech from the ...

Scott Simon talks with Robert Caro, author of Master of the Senate, about Lyndon Johnson's years as Senate majority leader. Mr. Caro says Senator Johnson corralled support for issues on his agenda by ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson passed away on January 22, 1973, just four years after leaving the Oval Office and one of the most tumultuous presidencies in U.S. history. To mark the 50th anniversary of ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- On this day 56 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The act banned discriminatory practices adopted in many Southern states after the ...

As you say, the first thing any reader has to reckon with in reading Master of the Senate is its size. It's not just the sheer length of 1,167 pages, nor simply that those 1,167 pages cover only ...

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 ...