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

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

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.

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.

This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps. On a July day in 1965, President ...

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 ...

Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, she became a newspaper reporter when she was 17. In an autobiographical sketch, she said she covered “everything from rabbit shows to murders.” She had a ...