Vice President Spiro Agnew and former President Lyndon B. Johnson view the liftoff of Apollo 11 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 9:32 am EDT on July 16, 1969. NASA GRIN #GPN-2002-000068 ...

Before Saturday, the last time a president sent Guard troops in to deal with civil unrest without cooperation from the state’s governor was 1965. By Jeremy W. Peters They signed landmark ...

Explain. Clip #7: Lyndon Johnson (2:27). What is the "traditional story” of why Lyndon Johnson chose to not run for reelection? Why is the traditional story only “partly true?” Explain.

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson and a group of U.S. congressmen showed up on the doorstep of former president Harry Truman in Independence, Mo. President Johnson had just won ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson was the nominee. Thelma supported Johnson. Milton did not. He and other white Mississippi delegates passed the following resolution before the convention: “We oppose, ...

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed Alabama's National Guard in March 1965, going over the state's governor, to protect civil rights demonstrators as they marched from Selma to Montgomery.

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that authority in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. That incident is now in the spotlight ...