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 ...

President Barack Obama on Thursday cast Lyndon B. Johnson’s push to end legal segregation as a factor in his own ascension to the White House. Obama joined three other living presidents in ...

Lyndon Johnson recognized opportunity when he saw ... Now, as the most recent years of Barack Obama’s presidency have failed to yield success on a par with his early victories—his historic ...

"Luci Baines," Lyndon Baines Johnson told his youngest child ... "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, and Barack Obama's speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president of the ...

Barack Obama has read and been influenced ... the latest being the fourth installment of his massive Lyndon B. Johnson biography — "The Passage of Power." He should immediately read it.

In a stirring speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, President Obama praised former President Lyndon B.Johnson for fighting to expand opportunity through ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama applauded his predecessor Lyndon Johnson for a civil rights legacy that eventually led to the election of the first U.S. black president nearly half a century ...

On Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama made history when he was sworn in as the first Black president of the United States. Alongside his wife and former First Lady, Michelle, his inauguration signified ...

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