President Donald Trump has issued a clear directive to Republican lawmakers: pass his proposed tax reform package or face the ...

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

Illinois will have its first new senator in a decade after voters select someone to succeed U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. Here’s a ...

and Idaho’s own Frank Church is a perfect example of a Democratic United States senator who differed publicly with his party’s powerful President Lyndon B. Johnson about U.S. involvement in ...

He muscled through the Civil Rights Act over the objections of segregationists in his own party. (Johnson, a longtime Southern senator, would later remark to an aide that by doing so, he had "lost ...

For Lyndon Johnson ... long since disaffected with L.B.J., who went so far as to declare that it would be in the “national interest” for the Johnson Democratic Party to “be ousted by ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon ... Johnson had polished his political talents to a high gloss. He was Democratic whip in two ...

“They called [Lyndon B. Johnson] the master ... but members of his own party are also among them. McConnell’s successor will be his deputy, Whip John Thune (R-SD). Although relinquishing ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 1963 (UPI) - President Lyndon B. Johnson is the first ... within the modern Democratic Party to challenge the nomination of Lyndon Johnson next year for president.

John Cornyn lost his bid Wednesday to become the first Texan to hold the powerful U.S. Senate majority leader post since Lyndon B. Johnson ... up the GOP to be the party in power over the Senate ...

As whip, Cornyn was McConnell’s No ... A Texan has not been a party leader in the Senate since Lyndon B. Johnson. Past leaders have used the position to benefit their home states, including ...

The rapt attention of two nations and the peoples of two hemispheres centered Saturday on El Paso and its border neighbor, Juarez, as President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ...