Presidential dinners are an important part of the nation's diplomacy. Besides fostering good relations with other heads of state and influential people, these dinners serve to open up dialogues and ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 60 years ago this month, evoked memories of his former Mexican American ...

President Obama delivered a rousing speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit Thursday afternoon as he celebrated the legacy of the man whom he credited with “swinging ...

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

The economy is big, complex and difficult for most people to understand. In reality, the president may not have as much control over the economy as people tend to think — the Federal Reserve, for ...

Political biographers have written about the Kennedy successor's predilection to "showing off" his generous endowment to those around him Tailors, plumbers, journalists and aides were among the many ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965, voting rights speech is an important reminder of the power of moral suasion when applied in support of basic democratic ...

Pat Morris has a lot of mementos after six decades of civic life as a school board trustee, prosecutor, judge and mayor, from 2006 to 2014, of San Bernardino. His memorabilia includes letters from ...