LYNDON JOHNSON

Douglas Brinkley describes a time, from 1960 to 1973, when Americans became alarmed by pollution and other problems — and trusted the government to fix them.

President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden married her fiance, Peter Neal, on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday.

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't re-up as a House leader next year, even her adversaries acknowledged that hers was a remarkable era.

“Here Comes the Bride” will play at the White House very soon.

Behind his tough image, the longtime FBI director was a man of profound contradictions, historian Beverly Gage writes.

Hispanic Heritage Month is a great time to learn more: For some, more about your own heritage, or for others, perhaps another culture.

A local elected official got court-appointed attorneys during his arraignment on a murder charge in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his managerial conduct.

Hanging out with Richard Nixon's daughter.

President Biden was the 13th and final U.S. president to meet the woman whose reign spanned seven decades.

French President Emmanuel Macron has turned his attention from Great Britain's new head of state to the new head of government on Saturday evening.

She went horseback riding with Ronald Reagan.

Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at age 96, had met every American president since Dwight Eisenhower, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, who did not visit Britain during his presidency. Biden was the 13th and final U.S. president to meet the woman whose reign spanned seven decades.

The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died.

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records.

It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W.

The 4th Congressional District in Washington state is a land of snow-capped volcanic peaks and lush irrigated apple orchards.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, guest worker agreements with Mexico curbed undocumented border crossings and spurred growth. They could do so again today.

It was launched as the new president’s ambitious plan for rebuilding America.

A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes that are terrorizing people across America.

California released an exhaustive report detailing how government laws and policies perpetuated discrimination against African Americans.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan backing to Powell’s high-stakes efforts to curb the highest inflation in four decades.

Historian Mark K.

When you live in a home passed down from previous generations, deep-time design opportunities lurk around every corner.

Antawn Jamison knows what it's like to play basketball with Michael Jordan in a pickup game while in college — and what it's like to go up against MJ in the NBA, too.

Michael Jordan gave way to LeBron James in the NBA of the 2000s, just as traditional forms of communication began to yield to the birth and growth of new media.

History was made the instant Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court.

Even when under maximum pressure, presidents have viewed the speech as a unique opportunity to make their case to the rest of the government, to the nation as a whole and to the wider world as well.

The discovery of more than a dozen boxes of records at Mar-a-Lago has alarmed historians and archivists, who rely on government documents to eventually provide a more complete picture of every presidential administration.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a musical reunion of Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, the first take of a multi-part documentary on Kanye West and the return of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” for its pandemic-delayed fourth season.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the criticism he received over a comment made about African American voters is outrageous and offensive.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats "made progress” toward changing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance voting legislation, despite the dramatic collapse of the package that his party says is central to protecting democracy.

Nearly six decades after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and others fought "Jim Crow" laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting rights - and our very democracy - are under siege again.

The last of a new class of warships has departed a Maine shipyard.

A statement from their family said Robb and her husband, former U.S. Sen. Chuck Robb, D-Va., were the only occupants at the time of the fire.

The White House Historical Association is honoring President Lyndon Johnson with its 2021 annual Christmas tree ornament.

LBJ tried jawboning.

The grind of legislating is treacherous for some, a sport for others, and rarely successful in the slow-moving Congress.

Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in trying to navigate President Joe Biden’s big domestic vision into law.

When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring.

It’s big, messy and complicated as the Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy package into law.

Robert Caro has been writing history for much of his adult life.

First lady Jill Biden has campaigned for Democrats in Virginia's and New Jersey’s governors' races.

The generals acknowledged America’s “strategic failure” in its longest war, and their differences with Biden.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson introduced Hispanic Heritage Week. “‘Hispanic’ is a term that comes from and understands its relationship from coming from Spain. Listen: Northwestern University Professor Michael Rodriguez Muniz and Maria Hinojosa of Latino USA discuss Hispanic Heritage Month in the context of cultural and racial reckoning. She’s also the host of Latino USA, heard on WDET at 7 a.m. Saturdays and at 10 p.m. Wednesdays. As far as the actual word “Hispanic,” Hinojosa says it’s never been a term with which she identifies.

Opinions around the word Hispanic versus Latino or the newer Latinx are rooted in personal experiences. Here's a look at how more than 62 million people in the U.S. fall under the Hispanic umbrella.

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

President Joe Biden’s “build back” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul's airport, ending America's longest war.

At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America's longest war.

President Joe Biden’s belief that bipartisanship is still possible in a deeply divided Washington was validated when Senate Democrats and Republicans came together to pass his $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is appealing for out-of-state help to fight the third wave of COVID-19.

Luci Baines Johnson was 18 when her father signed the act.

Luci Baines Johnson was 18 when her father signed the act.

Voting rights, state sovereignty and our vote in 2022

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

Doubleline Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach's said with inflation rising and Treasury yields remaining low, U.S. bonds are essentially negative yielding assets.

The nearly 20-year American combat mission in Afghanistan was the United States’ longest war.

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug on research on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.

We set our calendars around national holidays — from December 25 for Christmas to July 4 for Independence Day, and, starting this year, June 19 for Juneteenth.

Congressional leaders and a media advocacy organization are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigate how policy decisions have disparately harmed Black Americans and other communities of color, according to a letter sent Tuesday to the acting FCC chair.

After nearly two years of renovations, the Harry S.

Case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time.

When Russia was still the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, summits with its leaders were largely about fears of a thermonuclear duel and mass annihilation. Here's a look back at the highlights.

President Joe Biden’s recent address to Congress focused rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” package. We didn’t hear much about foreign affairs. That’s because he’s put them on the back burner to press forward with his “transformative,” and unprecedentedly expensive, domestic agenda.

"As I've said before: In America, when we shoot for the moon, we plant our flag on it," the vice president tweeted following the announcement.

President Biden’s first 100 days in office were marked by fierce debates on Capitol Hill over the rollout of progressive policy initiatives that have drawn comparisons to those enacted by his Democratic predecessors Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

Clark was known for defending unpopular figures, including former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Clark was known for defending unpopular figures, including former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Kennedy, of course, isn't the only leader who had a vision for the nation's space program. Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969)NASAPresident Lyndon Johnson was instrumental in both ratcheting up and scaling back the United States' space race with the Soviet Union. So Nixon's most lasting mark on American space activities is probably the space shuttle program. The 1978 document helped establish a key plank of American space policy: the right of self-defense in space. George W. Bush (2001-2009)NASAPresident George W. Bush issued his own space policy statement in 2006, which further encouraged private enterprise in space.

As president, Jackson allowed his postmaster general to let Southerners seize anti-slavery publications, in direct violation of the First Amendment. The movie portrayed the KKK as heroes and African Americans as uncivilized. Wilson appeared oblivious during the "Red Summer" of 1919 a time when communities across the country saw white mobs attack African Americans, resulting in hundreds of deaths. Democrat Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency in 1963 after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and sought to push a civil rights bill amid demonstrations by African Americans. But according to tapes of his private conversations, Johnson routinely used racist epithets to describe African Americans and some blacks he appointed to key positions.

Landmark decisions in the past 50 years regarding public funding of abortions in Illinois and the United States.

After the GOP convention in 1964 exposed some divisions within the party, President Lyndon Johnson's campaign wanted to make sure voters were aware.

Following the historic Selma march in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to pass legislation ensuring equal voting rights for African Americans. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6, 1965.

Is "Selma's" portrayal of LBJ historically accurate? Six months after witnessing President Lyndon Johnson outlaw segregation in July 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. was back at the White House seeking support for voting rights. In the movie "Selma," Johnson and King's relationship is confrontational. Michelle Miller investigates the historical accuracy of the film.

1/12: U.S. military Twitter account hacked; Is "Selma's" portrayal of LBJ historically accurate? A group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate took over CENTCOM's Twitter account and tweeted threats to American military. At the same time, CENTCOM's YouTube channel began showing ISIS propaganda videos. The attack only hit the Pentagon's social media channels, so some say it amounts to no more than a "gotcha" attack. David Martin reports; Six months after witnessing President Lyndon Johnson outlaw segregation in July 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. was back at the White House seeking support for voting rights.

Nature: The LBJ Ranch This week's moment in nature takes us to the wide open spaces of President Lyndon Johnson's ranch near Stonewall, Texas.

Almanac: Cigarette warning labels On July 27, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation requiring warning labels on packages of cigarettes. The warnings came a year-and-a-half after Surgeon General Luther Terry announced the findings of a groundbreaking study. Charles Osgood reports.

Bob Schieffer hosts "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" live symposium This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The landmark legislation signed by President Lyndon Johnson outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Bob Schieffer, who will host "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" tonight, joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to preview the special symposium.