In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a ...

April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, Senator Estes Kefauver, D-Tennessee, delivered his acceptance speech as the … President Lyndon B. Johnson accepted the Presidential nomination at the ...

Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson." I agree ... Press text of United Nations Representative Jeane J. Kirkpatrick's speech as delivered Aug. 20 to the Republican National Convention, in Dallas.) ...

The death of James Earl Jones has forced me to consider the end of an era. Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Jones were ...

"Is This America?" sings of Hamer’s life and work, with performances later this month at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester ...

Western New York residents, elected officials and leaders from Buffalo's Hispanic community kicked off Hispanic Heritage ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke at the fall Presidential Speaker Series dinner on ...

The term “coattail” has been around since the 1600s, but it wasn’t until the mid-20th century that it was used in the political context to describe a president’s ability to ...

In the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, Jones didn’t give rousing speeches or lead marches. Instead, he doubled down on his ...