In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson had a button on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office to expressly order this specific drink, but he drank it for a reason.

As Perkins notes, only three presidents have not used the Resolute desk since it was gifted to President Rutherford B. Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880 — Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and ...

Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The first jet-powered presidential aircraft featured an office and a safe for the nuclear codes ...