Excerpted from The Thirty-first of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson by Horace Busby.. Shortly after midnight, on Sunday, the thirty-first of March, in 1968, the telephone rang at my ...

Bill Moyers, a former White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson who became the thoughtful voice of public television, ...

And Lyndon B. Johnson called his portrait the "ugliest thing I ever saw." Peter Hurd, a successful artist who painted the work, ...

A previous version of this article incorrectly said Lyndon B. Johnson gave remarks at his portrait unveiling. He did not. The quip was made by former president Gerald R. Ford at the unveiling of ...

Bill Moyers, a former White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson who became the thoughtful voice of public television, ...

Description. This lesson explores the first 100 days of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. The lesson, which features Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer, opens with ...

Over half a century later, President Lyndon Johnson similarly felt as though he’d been done dirty by a portrait artist. In 1967, American painter Peter Hurd was commissioned to render the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson tells a nationwide audience that he would not seek nor accept “the nomination of my party for another term as your president” on March 31, 1968.

The first portraits financed by the association were of Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, and John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, said Stewart McLaurin, president of the private, nonprofit ...

Mr. Kuhn is the author of “The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.” Lyndon Baines Johnson would fall asleep at night and imagine himself ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson turned down the official commissioned portrait of himself by Peter Hurd, calling it “the ugliest thing I ever saw. ” Mr. Hurd called the comment “very damn rude.” ...