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FILE - President Lyndon B. Johnson uses the last of many pens to complete the signing of the Medicare Bill into law at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, July 30, 1965, with former President Harry S. Truman at his side. At rear are Lady Bird Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and former first lady Bess Truman. (AP Photo, File)

Medicaid was signed into law 60 years ago. Trump’s big bill is chiseling it back

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

FILE - This August 1967 file photo shows President Lyndon B. Johnson. A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give Johnson, then a congressman, a win that propelled the future president into the U.S. Senate. The audio recordings from Mangans interviews for that 1977 story were posted Thursday, March 30, 2023, on the LBJ Presidential Library and Museums archival website, Discover LBJ. (AP Photo, File)

‘Window into history’: Tapes detail Lyndon B. Johnson’s stolen election

By Jamie Stengle - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2008, file photo Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, D-Del., left, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, wave during a rally at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Biden’s long political evolution leads to his biggest test

By BILL BARROW - Associated Press

The outcome of the 2000 presidential election was so close that ballots cast in Florida came under close scrutiny to determine their validity. It fell to Judge Robert Rosenberg and others to examine “dimpled” and “hanging” chads on punch cards. (Associated Press)

Vote rigging and hanging chads: A brief history of contested elections

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Luci Baines Johnson, left, and her sister, Lynda Johnson Robb, smash champagne bottles to christen the Lyndon B. Johnson, the third Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, built at Bath Iron Works, Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Bath, Maine. Johnson and Robb and the daughters of the former president. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

LBJ’s daughters christen stealthy warship bearing his name

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2012, file photo, the &quot;Texas White House,&quot; where the late U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson often retreated during his presidency, is shown in Stonewall, Texas, as part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park. The home will be temporarily closed due to structural issues. National Park Service officials said Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, that in addition to the home known as the Texas White House, the pool house will also be closed due to structural issues. The park service didn't give details on the issues but said the facilities will be closed until it can be confirmed there aren't safety problems.(AP Photo/ Russell Contreras, File)

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Texas home closed for structural repairs

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President Barack Obama pardons Abe, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. This is the 68th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama spares Thanksgiving turkeys, but actual pardons for inmates on the rise, too

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Johnson signs Medicare legislation July 30, 1965. Associated Press photo

THOMAS DIBACCO: Medicare at age 50

By Thomas V. DiBacco

ESPN Studios: Commentator Stephen A. Smith. (Photo by: Rodrigo Varela/ESPN images) ** FILE **

Stephen A. Smith’s ‘dream’: ‘Every black person in America vote Republican’ for one election

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Dominique Daniel, Oakland University coordinator of university archives, left, and Shirley Paquette, archives assistant hold a display in Auburn Hills, Mich., March 10, 2015, of 50 pens used by President Lyndon Johnson to sign legislation in 1965. The pens where donated to the university by Billy Farnum, a one term U. S. Congressman. (AP Photo/The Oakland Press, Tim Thompson)

Oakland University home to pens used for ‘Great Society’

By ANDREW KIDD - Associated Press

Laura Kilgore of Huntington, Wva. visits the Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 14, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

THOMAS DIBACCO: Understanding the Vietnam War in context

By Thomas V. DiBacco

Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson with Jackie Kennedy in the bloodied suit, moments after Johnson was administered the presidential oath. (AP Photo/White House/Cecil Stoughton, File)

HUMPHRIES: Give Obama some credit; He’s not Carter bad … He’s LBJ horrific

By Rusty Humphries

FILE - This Jan. 12, 1966 file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson giving his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. Is “strong” losing its strength? Presidents of both parties have long felt compelled to sum up the state of the union with a descriptive word or two in their State of the Union addresses. Mostly the same word. For many years now, “strong” has been the go-to adjective. House Speaker John McCormack of Mass. is at left, Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. is at right. (AP Photo, File)

EDITORIAL: The not-so-Great Society turns a rickety 50

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner, Monday, May 12, 2014, in New York. Bush and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., courted some of Wall Street&#8217;s most powerful political donors Monday night, competing for attention from tuxedoed hedge fund executives gathered in midtown Manhattan as the early jockeying in the 2016 presidential contest quietly continues. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Jeb Bush praises Lyndon B. Johnson: ‘He did what leaders do’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at the LBJ Presidential Library, Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Austin, Texas, during the Civil Rights Summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama lauds LBJ on 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This July 2, 1964 file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the civil rights bill, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. With Washington mired in congressional gridlock, it’s become trendy in the nation’s capital to long for the days when LBJ could cajole or strong-arm lawmakers on both sides of the aisle into backing his legislative priorities. Implicit in those bouts of nostalgia is a sentiment that frustrates President Barack Obama and his advisers: the notion that the current commander-in-chief could break Washington’s logjam if only he emulated Johnson’s hands-on approach to dealing with Capitol Hill. Standing from left, are: Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill; Rep. Clarence Brown, R-Ohio; Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn; Rep. Charles Halleck, R-Ind; Rep. William McCullough, R-Ohio; and Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-NY. (AP Photo, File)

For Obama, frustration in comparisons to LBJ

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Obama will speak at UC Irvine graduation ceremony

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This image released by Jeffrey Richards Associates shows Bryan Cranston portraying President Lyndon B. Johnson during a performance of &quot;All the Way.&quot; Cranston plays Johnson during his first year in office following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and explores both his fight for re-election and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Richards Associates, Evgenia Eliseeva)

Review: Bryan Cranston superb in ‘All the Way’

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

This image released by Jeffrey Richards Associates shows Bryan Cranston portraying President Lyndon B. Johnson during a performance of &quot;All the Way.&quot; Cranston plays Johnson during his first year in office following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and explores both his fight for re-election and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Richards Associates, Evgenia Eliseeva)

Bryan Cranston plays another ‘complicated man’

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

Austin’s LBJ library hosts civil rights summit

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