Last year, numerous celebrations marked the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians consider President Lyndon Baines Johnson's contribution to the passage of that legislation to be one ...

What Martin Luther King Really Thought About Lyndon Baines Johnson. 4 minute read. ... Stan Wayman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. By Eliza Berman. January 6, 2015 10:18 AM EST.

Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to be remembered as the greatest president who ever lived. With that grand ambition in mind (and an ego to match), he launched such sweeping social programs as ...

Ahh, young love. In September 1934, future president Lyndon Baines Johnson was introduced to Claudia Alta Taylor (aka Lady Bird) in Austin, Texas.