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Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to nation on TV on March 31, 1968, announcing a bombing halt in Vietnam and his intention not to run for re-election.

Elections

'I'm not master of a damn thing'

Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 election inevitably leads to comparisons with Johnson’s withdrawal from the 1968 election.
painting of George Washington at Mount Vernon

U.S. presidents and slavery

Before the Civil War, many US presidents owned enslaved people, and all of them had to deal with slavery as a political issue
Gautham Rao
LBJ meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr.

LBJtapes.org

Delve into even more "secret tapes" from President Lyndon Johnson's time in the White House.
Nixon and premier choi en lai shake hands in peking china

Nixon on China

President Nixon would play China against the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union against China, and both against North Vietnam.
Ken Hughes
Half-tone image of Elizabeth Jennings Graham

Race and Racism

‘I did not get off the car’

Elizabeth Jennings’s first-person account appeared in the anti-slavery newspaper The New York Daily Tribune on June 19, 1854. Three days before, this 24-year-old schoolteacher on her way to church had boarded the Third Avenue Railroad at the corner of Pearl and Chatham streets in New York City. The conductor told her to wait for the next car, because it would be accepting Black riders.