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Lyndon Johnson Articles

• THE CONGRESS: Sense & Sensitivity
  Mar. 17, 1958
  (See Cover) Lyndon Johnson's mental alarm clock went off just before 7 o'clock. He swept his long black hair out of his eyes, smoothed it over the thinning area on top of his head. Then he pushed the bedside buzzer for Cook Zephyr Wright to bring up his tomato juice, pink Texas grapefruit, venison sausage ...
• DEMOCRATS: A Man Who Takes His Time
  Apr. 25, 1960
  (See Cover) Texas stirred with the promise of the season. The roosters greeted the dawn with an ovation, the newborn calves staggered after their mothers into greening pastures. The clear, swift-flowing Pedernales River sparkled under a benign sun, jack rabbits scampered across the country roads, and the bluebonnets spread their rich, bright cloak over the ...
• DEMOCRATS: The General Manager
  Jun. 22, 1953
  (See Cover) I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. —Will Rogers This week any Democrat in the U.S. could borrow Will Rogers' words and describe his own status with as much accuracy as humor. Seven months after the great defeat, the Democratic Party is disorganized, in debt and ...
• Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Prudent Progressive
  Jan. 1, 1965
  MAN OF THE YEAR (See Cover) There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity was safe in his hands to that November night nearly a ...
• DEMOCRATS: The Reverberating Issue
  Jul. 18, 1960
  On a hurried political expedition into New York City last week, Texas' Senator Lyndon B. Johnson all but bumped into Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, who had slipped away from his seaside vacation retreat at Hyannisport, Mass, to do some New York politicking himself. Just as Kennedy headed into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, by long-shot coincidence the ...

Lyndon Johnson Blog Posts

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  Obama Meets the Press Himself
  Jan. 13, 2008
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  Bush, The Times and the War
  Jul. 10, 2007
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  Where all that increased federal spending has gone
  Mar. 12, 2007
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  The Daily 2008
  Mar. 20, 2008
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  The Daily 2008
  Jan. 4, 2008

Lyndon Johnson Photo Essays & Graphics

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  How Presidents Age in Office

  From LBJ to W, a look at what the toughest job in the world can do to a man
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  Presidents and Their Dogs

  The Obamas select a Portuguese water dog to join them in the White House, continuing a long tradition of Presidential first dogs

Lyndon Johnson TIME Covers

• May 17, 1993
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• Nov 29, 1963
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• Nov 24, 1958
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Related TIME Cover Stories

• THE CONGRESS: Sense & Sensitivity
• DEMOCRATS: A Man Who Takes His Time
• DEMOCRATS: The General Manager
• Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Prudent Progressive
• DEMOCRATS: The Reverberating Issue