Lyndon B. Johnson inaugural address: January 20, 1965

Lyndon B. Johnson: Life, Presidency, and Legacy

Lyndon B. Johnson (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum), one of the most colorful and consequential men to occupy the office of President of the United States, was born on this day in 1908. In just five years and five months as President, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and launched an array of initiatives, pledging to build a “Great Society.” Learn more about the 36th President in this clip from THE CONGRESS. | UNUM Ken Burns

Roger Stone exposes Lyndon B. Johnson’s role in JFK’s assassination. “Lyndon Johnson was an overbearing, coarse, ruthless, sociopathic, low-life, power-mad monster… I attribute in this book at least 18 murders to him before he got to JFK.” Stone added, “The plastic bubble top on Kennedy’s limousine is removed, not on the orders of the Secret Service, not on the orders of JFK, on the orders of Bill Moyers, who’s working as an aide to Vice President Lyndon Johnson.” Listen to Episode 10 of My Pric