"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz announced Wednesday he was backing Rick Scott of Florida over fellow Texan John Cornyn in the vote for the next Senate majority leader. In a post of X, Cruz said he believed Senate ...
As spring crept up on Washington, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson declared Congress’ work farther along than for many a session. If nobody drags his feet, promised Texan Johnson, the ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s announcement that the Senate would jump ahead of the House to vote on a budget proposal ...
Israel turns 70 this year. JTA's Ron Kampeas describes the U.S.-Israel friendship through portraits of all 13 presidents who have been in office during the Jewish state's history. Israel turns 70 ...
The clock in the almost empty Senate chamber stood at a few minutes past 11 one morning last week as Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas unfolded his lanky frame from his first-row seat and ...
Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the ...