Photograph of Lyndon Johnson on telephone.

NPR considers the incidents and reporting surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident forty years after the actual event, a military encounter at sea that escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. With a year to go until the election of 1964, LBJ appropriated Kennedy's "New Frontier" and transformed this agenda into his "Great Society."

This website looks at Lyndon B. Johnson's use of secretly taped and tapped meetings and telephone conversations, and their role in how he worked as President. Audio of some of the conversations and meetings are included.

Boyhood home of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

This overview of President John F. Kennedy suggests that he set a liberal tone with his agenda rather than the more hands-on approach of his successor, Lyndon Johnson.