Lyndon Johnson

The State clearly knew best what "these" people really needed for them to have some minimum form of a "decent life."

"I rarely have felt that sense of powerlessness more acutely than the day Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed."

A 2007 biography of Billy Graham explores his love for people and leadership.

Woody Harrelson and Rob Reiner hated Lyndon B. Johnson.... Until they made a movie about him.

A trove of 38 letters the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" wrote to a friend is up for auction.

It is illegal to discriminate against immigrants based on their national origin.

Changing the definition of poverty ensures that we'll never fully "win" the war, a retired entrepreneur writes.

Blacks make up a third of South Carolina's voters. But Blacks have never had more than one House member out of seven.

Lyndon Johnson managed to portray Goldwater, one of the best-liked members of the Senate, as a madman who would take America into a nuclear war.

The State of the Union was, for much of U.S. History, a memo to Congress. Now it's a giant spectacle.

The 1965 immigration reform act, now 50 years old, wasn't supposed to encourage Mexican immigration. Oops!

The presidential briefings will cover what the spy agency told JFK and LBJ about foreign crises and leaders.

State laws have the potential to reduce eligible voters' ability to cast ballots.

The law, signed by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, banned discrimination in voting.

Why the president's 'We Shall Overcome' speech stands as an important point in U.S. and world history.