The first Democrat in Congress to go public urging President Biden to end his reelection campaign this month cited a potent historical precedent — the decision by President Lyndon B. Johnson to ...

WASHINGTON — Some voters probably still hope Joe Biden or Donald Trump - or both - will do what Lyndon Baines Johnson did nearly 56 years ago: Pull out of the presidential race under public pressure.

Arriving at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Monday President Biden hopes to revisit the mountaintop of LBJ’s greatest achievement: passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Lady Bird Johnson could see the tears on her husband’s face. It was the morning of March 31, 1968, and Lyndon B. Johnson was still lying in his White House bedroom. His presidency was falling apart.

The impulse to seek lessons from history is wise, but the lessons are only as good as the history. President Biden’s alarming failures during his debate Thursday with former president Donald Trump ...

The crosswinds of fate sometimes whip up to such an intensity that politics are upended and the direction of the country reversed in an instant. The end of March and the beginning of April 1968 was ...

Anti-war protesters decry a president who is running for reelection: Are we talking Joe Biden in 2024 or Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968? After all, just as demonstrators this spring at campuses across the ...

Volunteers distribute yard signs promoting the "Write In Biden" effort at a New Hampshire Democratic Party fundraiser, Dec. 1, 2023. President Joe Biden is skipping the New Hampshire presidential ...