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Column: Even LBJ knows who's the real king _ Messi

Column: Even LBJ knows who's the real king _ Messi

Caro wins National Book Critics Circle bio prize

"The Passage of Power" covers LBJ's vice presidential years and the early weeks of his presidency, after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

LBJ persisted in wooing, couple's love letters show

Claudia Alta Taylor, the 21-year-old rancher's daughter known to her friends as "Bird," was intrigued but thought Lyndon Johnson's proposal was much too impulsive.

LBJ and Lady Bird courtship love letters released

Lady Bird Johnson spent 34 years in Washington as her husband's political career took him to the chief executive's office after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

Bob Ray Sanders: There's more to know about Sarah T. Hughes than swearing in LBJ

Bob Ray Sanders: There's more to know about Sarah T. Hughes than swearing in LBJ

There's more to know about Sarah T. Hughes than swearing in LBJ

There's more to know about Sarah T. Hughes than swearing in LBJ

LBJ exhibit spotlights an era strikingly like our own

Yet LBJ's decision to expand the war in Vietnam, and the upheaval of protests that followed, remain what he's best known for, something Updegrove believes is changing.

Obama can learn from LBJ on gun control

But the day after Kennedy died from gunshot wounds, LBJ renewed his pressure on the Senate Judiciary Committee to report his bill out and send it to the Senate floor for a vote.

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I just finished the fourth volume of Robert Caro's brilliant biography of Lyndon Johnson, The...