6 presidential speeches that shaped American history
These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today.
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These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today.
That law paved the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which ended discriminatory voting laws.
Biden called for a Constitutional Amendment eliminating immunity for crimes a former president committed in office.
"Just to have her telling her own story was so fascinating."
A universit political historian is speaking on lessons President Lyndon B. Johnson might offer to current presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Police say Lyndon Johnson owns more than a dozen Church's Chicken restaurants in Tulsa and Oklahoma City that were shut down for unpaid sales taxes.
A bronze marker has been installed near the spot at Dallas Love Field where Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office to become president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
A day after hailing the Civil Rights Act as a lasting legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, President Barack Obama is using another civil rights forum to issue an election-year warning against erosion of the Voting Rights Act.
Barack Obama was 2 years old when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, putting an end to a U.S. where schools, restaurants and water fountains were divided by race.
A public service will be held Sunday at Lamar University for former Texas Congressman Jack Brooks.
Former U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks, a Democrat who spent 42 years representing his Southeast Texas district, has died at age 89.
Precisely 40 years after they began to appear in The New York Times, triggering a constitutional crisis over freedom of the press, the Pentagon Papers will be released at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum and other sites Monday.
Lady Bird Johnson's personal insight into the pre-presidential years is revealed in a large collection of oral histories the LBJ Library has released as part of its 40th anniversary celebration this week.
