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, ...

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

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 ...

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 federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

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.

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. In 1943, Lady Bird Johnson purchased a small radio station in Austin, Texas for $17,500.

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; Johnson ran in his own right in 1964, winning in a landslide.