The Presidential Fitness Test, created in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, requires children to run and perform situps, ...

The Republican Party’s recent tax and spending bill made substantial changes to the landmark safety net programs created by ...

On July 31, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reviving the Presidential Fitness Test. Here's what to know ...

Sixty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri, to sign a groundbreaking piece of ...

FILE - President Lyndon B. Johnson uses the last of many pens to complete the signing of the Medicare Bill into law at the ...

Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, she became a newspaper reporter when she was 17. In an autobiographical sketch, she said she covered “everything from rabbit shows to murders.” She had a ...

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted ...

Then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson stands in the aisle of a commuter train and talks with passengers as it nears Greenwich, Conn., on the evening of Oct. 5, 1960. Nearly four years later, the then ...

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