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4 hours ago · Dick’s files revealed how fiercely JFK’s anguished brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, hated LBJ. RFK even suggested at one point that LBJ — the president who would later author so ...
18 hours ago · President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Tom Fletcher’s house in Martin County in 1964 and listened as Fletcher talked of struggling to support his family. Johnson declared a war on poverty that day ...
48 minutes ago · That was the last year the U.S. coins were minted from silver (90%). In other words, coins minted before 1965 were real money – not government fiat currency. President Lyndon B. Johnson changed that when he signed the Coinage Act of 1965. Under the law, the U.S. Treasury removed all of the silver from dimes, quarters, and half-dollars.
18 hours ago · Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin with U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson at the 1967 Glassboro Summit Conference. NATO and Warsaw Pact troop strengths in Europe in 1973 In the course of the 1960s and 1970s, Cold War participants struggled to adjust to a new, more complicated pattern of international relations in which the world was no longer divided ...
18 hours ago · U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. The northern Democrats' support of civil rights issues culminated when Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 , which ended legal segregation and provided federal enforcement of voting ...
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18 hours ago · Among the most sought-after U.S. paper money of the late 1960s are the short-lived "Barr" Notes. These distinctive $1 Federal Reserve Notes bear the signature of Joseph W. Barr, who served as Secretary of the Treasury during the last 28 days of President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. Barr was replaced when President Nixon chose a successor.
18 hours ago · On October 18, 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson visited American Samoa. Mrs. Johnson dedicated the "Manulele Tausala" ("Lady Bird") Elementary School in Nuʻuuli, which was named after her. Johnson is the only US president to have visited American Samoa, while Mrs. Johnson was the second First Lady ...
