August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

The Republican Party’s recent tax and spending bill made substantial changes to the landmark safety net programs created by ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.

On July 31, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reviving the Presidential Fitness Test. Here's what to know ...

Sixty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. This was one of the most ...

Then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson stands in the aisle of a commuter train and talks with passengers as it nears Greenwich, Conn., on the evening of Oct. 5, 1960. Nearly four years later, the then ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses NASA employees at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas on March 1, 1968. The center would be renamed for Johnson on Feb. 19, 1973, a month after the ...

He was considered one of Lyndon B. Johnson’s closest confidants during this time in office. We welcome your thoughts in a letter to the editor. See the guidelines and submit your letter here.

The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library made these letters available on their online archive. The early ones are full of gushy back-and-forths and some mundane revelations.

President Linden B. Johnson announces Great Society program on Tuesday January 5, 1965. The fear of a recession can contribute to the fact of a recession, the President warned, and he had an antidote.