Lyndon Johnson

US Senator and Democratic presidential c

Service Sunday For Former Texas Congressman Brooks

A public service will be held Sunday at Lamar University for former Texas Congressman Jack Brooks.

2012/12/06

Former Rep. Jack Brooks Dies In Beaumont

Former U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks, a Democrat who spent 42 years representing his Southeast Texas district, has died at age 89.

2012/12/05

President Lyndon B. Johnson (R) confers, on August 8, 1965, in the White House with the U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, General Maxwell Taylor (L). (credit: AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

LBJ Library To Release Pentagon Papers

Precisely 40 years after they began to appear in The New York Times, triggering a constitutional crisis over freedom of the press, the Pentagon Papers will be released at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum and other sites Monday.

2011/06/12

Photo of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, taken in 1997. (credit: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)

LBJ Library Releases Lady Bird’s Oral Histories

Lady Bird Johnson’s personal insight into the pre-presidential years is revealed in a large collection of oral histories the LBJ Library has released as part of its 40th anniversary celebration this week.

2011/05/25

LBJ Plane On Display At LBJ Ranch

Luci Baines Johnson remembers as a teenager riding in a shiny jet trimmed with blue and white paint and emblazoned with black letters proclaiming “United States of America,” then landing on the narrow bumpy airstrip […]

2010/08/27

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