Mr. Vice President, Mr. Cormier, Mr. Kilpatrick, ladies and gentlemen: A very funny thing happened to me tonight when I was on my way out of the White House -- [Laughter] -- I mean tonight. When I ...
On March 31, 1968, at 9:00 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson sat behind the large wooden desk he had used since his days in the Senate and addressed the American people from the Oval Office. His speech ...
Lady Bird Johnson could see the tears on her husband’s face. It was the morning of March 31, 1968, and Lyndon B. Johnson was still lying in his White House bedroom. His presidency was falling apart.
No one knows how the U.S. stock market will react now that President Joe Biden has withdrawn from the 2024 presidential race. The only historical parallel is to former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ...
Anti-war protesters decry a president who is running for reelection: Are we talking Joe Biden in 2024 or Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968? After all, just as demonstrators this spring at campuses across the ...
A man reads the Chicago Tribune announcing President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision not to run for reelection in 1968. Corbis/Getty Images After President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance at the June ...
The comprehensive biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ted reviews the four-volume (and counting) biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson by author Robert A. Caro. Inside the Cover is available ...
With President Joe Biden officially backing out of the 2024 presidential election race, he becomes the first president in 56 years to not seek his party's nomination for commander-in-chief. On March ...
The candidates who secured the Democratic nomination after the two presidents dropped out would go on to lose the election. But historians say political history doesn’t necessarily repeat itself. By ...