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 ...

When former President Lyndon B. Johnson took office in 1963, he requested another desk for the Oval Office, according to The White House Historical Association.

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 ...