President Barack Obama paid homage Thursday to Lyndon B. Johnson as a white southerner who, thrust into the Oval Office a half century ago, seized history to enact laws that dismantled legal ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas was lauded by four successor presidents as a Lincoln-esque groundbreaker for civil rights, but President Barack Obama also noted that Johnson also had long ...

Obama will visit Johnson's presidential library in Austin, Texas, to remedy what some Johnson admirers have described as a 'pattern of omission.' Obama to honor Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights ...

Honoring the legacy of a former president he’s barely mentioned previously, President Barack Obama on Thursday cast Lyndon B. Johnson’s push to end legal segregation as a factor in his own ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day ...

President Barack Obama comes face to face Thursday with the legacy of Lyndon Johnson. Obama will deliver the keynote address at Johnson’s presidential library in Austin, Texas, marking the 50th ...

The link between Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama. By CARY CLACK Aug 28, 2008. On Aug. 6, 1965, Luci Baines Johnson, the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the United States, ...

A previous version of this article incorrectly said Lyndon B. Johnson gave remarks at his portrait unveiling. He did not. The quip was made by former president Gerald R. Ford at the unveiling of ...

The 10-story library of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the nation's 36th president, ... George W. Bush and Barack Obama spoke at the library’s Civil Rights Summit in 2014.