When President Joe Biden dropped his sudden bombshell announcement on Sunday that he has pulled out of the race for the White House, echoes of 1968 grew louder. On March 31, 1968, Lyndon Baines ...

It’s just over six months until Election Day. The president faces a tough fight for reelection. His approval rating has cratered below 40% in the polls, his party is divided over a foreign war, and a ...

Few people knew Lyndon Johnson better than Tom Johnson. No relation, the latter was a reporter with the Macon Telegraph in ...

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.

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 ...

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Cormier, Mr. Kilpatrick, ladies and gentlemen: A very funny thing happened to me tonight when I was on my way out of the White House -- [Laughter] -- I mean tonight. When I ...

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 ...

Homeless people move their belongings to the side of a freeway on land under state jurisdiction, after being evicted from a downtown location along side a city street, in San Diego. REUTERS/Mike Blake ...

As the incumbent president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the presumed Democratic nominee for the 2024 election. He even won Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary without being on the ballot or campaigning. And ...

As I write this, one week after his shockingly poor performance in his debate against former President Trump, it seems increasingly clear that President Biden will be forced to abandon his re-election ...