Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” isn’t a particularly short speech, but it is delivered with energy. It’s readily accessible. Read it, listen to it, watch it and see if you’re not ...

Lyndon Johnson wants to be remembered as the man in the business suit. In a break with prevailing custom, the White House announced that Johnson will attend the Inauguration wearing “an Oxford ...

John Quincy Adams used a law text for his 1825 inauguration. And, sworn in aboard Air Force One after John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson used a Catholic missal.

Description. President Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress on January 14, 1969, less than a week before the inauguration of his successor, Republican Richard ...

THE PRESIDENCY . Lyndon Johnson was poised for the biggest day of his life, his first pomp-and-ceremonial inauguration. The event would be all the more stirring because of the jarring contrast ...

"Day of the Oath" captures the historic inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, reflecting on the significance of this event in American history. It highlights the tradition of ...

It was the sixth time the Tabernacle Choir performed at presidential inauguration festivities: Lyndon B. Johnson’s in 1965; Richard Nixon’s in 1969; Ronald Reagan’s in 1981; George H.W. Bush ...

THE PRESIDENCY After the tension, the gaiety and the personal triumph of his inauguration came a letdown for Lyndon Johnson —and a scare. Wearing maroon pajamas and a navy-blue silk robe, the ...