While Congress often ignores a president's budget request, the proposed elimination of Head Start highlights the ...

Named for its co-founder Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson), the Lady Bird ... The former first lady co-founded the center with Helen Hayes to educate others ...

1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned listeners ... her 6-year-old deaf-blind pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of ...

After his military service, Braun joined the Georgetown Law School faculty until he was appointed deputy assistant attorney general of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson ... and her ...

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

Born in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so ...

Salinas’ Hill Country landscapes were a favorite of Lady Bird and President Lyndon B. Johnson. During his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law close to 300 conservation measures and expanded ...

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Whittington had met President Lyndon B. Johnson, but there was no reason for him to call her at home; they’d hardly interacted during her tenure as secretary to one of the late John F.