In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted ...

Sixty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri, to sign a groundbreaking piece of ...

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health ...

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

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It forbade discrimination in public spaces, among other steps.

FILE - President Lyndon B. Johnson uses the last of many pens to complete the signing of the Medicare Bill into law at the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a utopian new vision for the United States under a vastly expanded federal government, which he dubbed the Great Society, on this day in history, Jan. 4, 1965.

Charles Peter's biography, [Lyndon B. Johnson: The 36th President, 1963-1969], is part of The American Presidents series published by Times Books. Mr.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s first year as president was one for the history books: it began with President Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, and ended almost exactly a year later with Johnson ...

Muriel Dobbin, a retired Washington Bureau reporter who covered President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Watergate hearings and trial, died July 18 at her Washington home. She was 94. No cause of death was ...

December 1, 2008 Historians on Lyndon B. Johnson ... Historians spoke about Lyndon Johnson ’s White House and related several anecdotes about President Johnson’s activities in the residence.