The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.

“It’s a mess.” President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the Vietnam situation was trouble when he inherited it following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He also couldn’t wrap his ...

It has become one of the great suspense stories in American letters, the nonfiction equivalent of Ahab and the white whale: Robert Caro and his leviathan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Caro, perhaps the ...

President Lyndon Johnson from 1926-69, oil politics have always been a big part of the business and they remain so now. Odessa oilman Kirk Edwards and Waco economist Ray Perryman say it was a ...

Lyndon Johnson, seeking lower interest rates to fund the Vietnam War and Great Society programs, summoned the Fed chair, William McChesney Martin, to his Texas ranch to pressure him into loosening ...

James A. Rhodes and received greetings from President Lyndon Johnson. Check out the slideshow with this story to for historic photos of Mock and her plane.