President Johnson talks by phone from the White House, Jan. 17, 1968. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive On Aug. 27, 1908, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas.

Lyndon Baines Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson , also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F ...

Well-known historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s newest book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, is based on 300 file boxes her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin, a gifted ...

Fifty years after the death of Lyndon Baines Johnson, biographer Robert Caro, historian Mark Updegrove, and Luci Baines Johnson (LBJ's youngest daughter) discuss one of the most consequential, yet ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson was one of the most astute, effective, and perplexing politicians in modern American history. An "accidental" president but a master legislator, he was determined to "out ...