Jazz great Ethel Ennis sang the national anthem. Jimmy Carter, 1977: Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, a Holocaust survivor, ...
Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965: The United States Marine Band performed the national anthem. Richard Nixon, 1969: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir accompanied by the United States Marine Band performed the ...
"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...