Portrait of President Lyndon B. Johnsoncredit: Arnold Newman
Adlai Stevenson once said of Lyndon Johnson, “He is a master of the art of the possible in politics.”
Throughout his long career in Washington, and particularly in his five years in the White House, President Johnson showed his mastery of the legislative process in bringing about sweeping social change to the United States that resonates today, while battling, ultimately in vain, the Cold War challenges posed in Vietnam.
This section provides a glimpse of the thirty-sixth President including the content that appears to the left of this page. New and more comprehensive content will be added in the coming months, including plans to upload President Johnson's historic Oval Office telephone conversations along with contextual overviews on an ongoing basis.