Biographer Robert Caro asserts he was known as "the biggest liar on campus." [8] The college years refined his remarkable skills of persuasion and political organization. One year Johnson taught mostly Mexican American children at the Welhausen School in Cotulla, Texas. When he returned to San...
Fifty years after the death of Lyndon Baines Johnson, biographer Robert Caro, historian Mark Updegrove, and Luci Baines Johnson (LBJ's youngest daughter) discuss one of the most consequential, yet underappreciated presidencies in U.S. history. ...
As biographerRobert CarotoldNPRin 2014, the young Johnson “lived in a home that they were literally afraid every month that the bank might take away. … There were constant moments of humiliation for him.” Exposed to his father’s fluctuating fortunes at a young age, Johnson...
As Johnson's biographer Robert Caro observes, "Johnson's ambition was uncommon—in the degree to which it was unencumbered by even the slightest excess weight of ideology, of philosophy, of principles, of beliefs." Senate years 1948 contested election In 1948, Johnson again ran for the Senate...
Lyndon B. Johnson. Self: Spartamerika. Lyndon Baines Johnson often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice president fr
Johnson gives "the treatment" to 90-year-oldRhode Islandsenator Theodore F. Green in 1957 historians Caro and Dallek consider Lyndon Johnson the most effective senate majority leader in history. He was unusually proficient at gathering information. One biographer suggests he was "the greatest intelli...
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President Lyndon B. Johnson, who grew up in the South and understood the politics of racism from the inside, saw it in part as a ploy to divide and conquer.
After Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson used the power and resources of the federal government to transform Texas and the rest of the South—against its will, of course. Part of his motivation for pushing for the passage of civil rights legislation, according to LBJ biographer Robert Dallek, was...
Johnson gives "The Treatment" to 90-year-old Rhode Island Senator Theodore F. Green in 1957Historians Caro and Dallek consider Lyndon Johnson the most effective Senate majority leader in history. He was unusually proficient at gathering information. One biographer suggests he was "the greatest intel...