Kennedy School of Government and a professor of history at Harvard University. The conversation focused on President Lyndon Johnson’s foreign policy and the recent book, LBJ’s America: The Life and ...

Kennedy's tragic assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as president, flanked by his wife Lady Bird, and Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline. "She wanted, as did Lyndon Johnson, the country and ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President ... for all of his creativity in thinking about domestic policy, was fairly conventional in his thinking about foreign policy. Though he recognized the ...

Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led to Lyndon ... foreign policy failure for Johnson?

(See Cover) Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President of the U.S. in the latter third of the 20th century would almost certainly be the world’s ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B ... with Johnson’s handling of the Vietnam War was the driving factor behind his decision to exit the race. “He had committed to this policy of escalation ...