President Barack Obama paid homage Thursday to Lyndon B. Johnson as a white southerner who, thrust into the Oval Office a half century ago, seized history to enact laws that dismantled legal ...

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 ...

Obama will visit Johnson's presidential library in Austin, Texas, to remedy what some Johnson admirers have described as a 'pattern of omission.' Obama to honor Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights ...

Honoring the legacy of a former president he’s barely mentioned previously, President Barack Obama on Thursday cast Lyndon B. Johnson’s push to end legal segregation as a factor in his own ...

Barack Obama did not accomplish in his presidency what he had hoped. ... He is Lyndon Johnson without the expertise. M an, that did not go as planned at all. Remember 2008.

President Lyndon B. Johnson reached to shake hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. ( File - The Associated Press ) President Barack Obama reads ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day ...

The link between Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama. By CARY CLACK Aug 28, 2008. On Aug. 6, 1965, Luci Baines Johnson, the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the United States, ...

Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day become U.S. president.