Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

Before Saturday, the last time a president sent Guard troops in to deal with civil unrest without cooperation from the state’s governor was 1965. By Jeremy W. Peters It was March 1965, on the eve of ...

Andrews Air Force Base, Md., July 28, 1966: Members of the maintenance crew for the fleet of presidential aircraft based at Andrews AFB polish the exterior of the plane known as SAM 26000 while in the ...