President Barack Obama punctuated his speech on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act Thursday with some fiery language that would not have sounded unusual coming from the mouth ...

While former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton may be the poster boys for White House sex scandals, it's possible that Lyndon B. Johnson had even more NSFW moments in the Oval Office. The ...

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

When President Lyndon Johnson was a boy, his mother, Rebekah, always reminded him that having power is of no value unless it is used to help others. That was the philosophy Johnson held throughout his ...

A $14 million rehabilitation project is underway to preserve the legacy of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The focus of the restoration is the Texas White House where LBJ spent a quarter of his time ...

Political biographers have written about the Kennedy successor's predilection to "showing off" his generous endowment to those around him Tailors, plumbers, journalists and aides were among the many ...