These are memorials to Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. Little seems to connect them. One is filled with remarkable calls to justice. The other is a landscape of pine trees. But for two years they strategized together—behind closed doors …

Just a few days after taking power, President Johnson struggled with the difficulties of inheriting a presidency without warning. In this conversation with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a leading civil rights organization, Johnson continued reaching out to all the ...

Though Martin Luther King, Jr., called Johnson’s 1964 election “one of America’s finest hours” and believed that Johnson had an “amazing understanding of the depth and dimension of the problem of racial injustice,” King’s outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War damaged his relationship with Johnson and brought an end to an ...

On April 4, 1968, LBJ observed: “The world that day seemed to me a pretty good place.” But, as he prepared to attend a Democratic fundraiser that evening, a note arrived reading: “Mr. President:...

2018年4月3日 · President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover are the clearest examples of how the tension between myths and truths is still being wrought, in a continuing cultural movement that...

2023年10月19日 · President Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stand out as remarkable co-architects of the movement for racial progress and just democracy that marked the decade of the 1960s. Individually, each put an indelible stamp of …

2018年2月28日 · Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most renowned Civil Rights leader of the movement, was widely regarded as America’s preeminent advocate of nonviolence. Drawing inspiration from his faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, he pushed for nonviolent resistance movements against racial discrimination including protests, grassroots ...

In the aftermath of rioting in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California, President Johnson received a discouraging phone call from Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. called LBJ on July 7, 1965, politely pressing Johnson to ensure the bill's safe passage. Johnson's initial response was defensive. LBJ complained that he, alone, was fighting the political battle with Congress. The president offered King a detailed analysis of how and why the voting rights bill was getting held up.

The conversation with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was part of President Johnson’s methodical cultivation of all the major civil rights leaders. . . . interest and your cooperation, and your communication, and a good many people told me that they heard about your statement. I guess it [was] on TV wasn’t it? Yes, that’s right— I—