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For the past 37 years, Robert Caro has devoted his life to writing the definitive biography of Lyndon Johnson. So far, The Years of Lyndon Johnson has four acclaimed volumes and has shown readers just how complex the 36th president was, as both a ...

Harry Middleton jokingly likens the University of Texas class he just wrapped up teaching on Lyndon B. Johnson to Tom Sawyer's picket fence-whitewashing strategy: Hed get colleagues to stop by and do the heavy lifting for him. At 91 and sharp as ...

Robert Caro is undoubtedly the expert on Lyndon Johnson. Four of his five-part series The Years of Lyndon Johnson Watch the video above from about 5:07 to learn what Johnson called his Johnson, and how he felt about the idea of confronting a ...

In 1968, caught in the throes of the Vietnam war, a frustrated Lyndon Johnson quipped to Bill Moyers that he felt like a hitchhiker on a highway in a Texas hailstorm. I can't run, I can't hide and I can't make it stop. Syria isn't Barack Obama's ...

Former President Park Chung-hee(L) and his wife met with the then U.S. president Lyndon Baines Johnson(R) and wife during his visit to U.S. in 1965. (Photo:Agencies) Park Geun-hye and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel(Photo:Agencies) By Zhang Yujie, Sina ...

Bryan Cranston, the "Breaking Bad" star, will return to his stage roots this fall to star as Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schennkan's new political drama, "All the Way," at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. "All the Way" will open ...

So, is Barack Obama a wimp or just another lame-duck second-term President? Maureen Dowd , in her typically sophomoric fashion, appears to believe that the failure to pass gun control legislation shows that the President has not been paying enough ...

Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. "All The Way" will open the new season at ...

President Lyndon Johnson said, Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty. As students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, President Johnson's commitment to accessible education holds particular ...