President Lyndon B. Johnson barked ... Country outside Johnson City 74 times -- and spent 490 days there, about a quarter of his presidency. The press dubbed it the "Texas White House," but ...
Johnson came to the White ... talk that Lyndon would one day be President-but he denied any such ambition. When, in 1960, he finally decided to go after the job, his Southern background proved ...
Polls indicated that Lyndon Johnson would retain the White House by a large margin. Despite the optimism of polls and pundits, Lyndon Johnson appeared unsure about his suitability for the office ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created ... Carter selected his close friend, who advised him in the White House. Third, the Presidents were not willing to divest their ...
The man in the White House is at once the chief repository of the nation’s aspirations and the supreme scapegoat for its frustrations. As such, Lyndon Johnson ... hey, L.B.J., how many kids ...
But Johnson said that signing the landmark legislation was not enough to address Black poverty, which he said was different from white poverty. Black poverty was caused by "ancient brutality ...