This article analyzes the evolution of the depictions of Lyndon B. Johnson in cinema and television. Initially, his presidency had largely been obscured due to his association with the Vietnam War. However, in the 2000s and 2010s, his legacy has been progressively re-evaluated by various directors. These changes, far from coincidental, can be interpreted as the result of the decreased reverence toward the presidential image, a relative easing of the memorial tensions surrounding the Vietnam War, and the increased saliency of the racial question. In this regard, these evolutions illustrate the importance of both the context and previous depictions on the current representations of past events, as it has been demonstrated by the supporters of the processual approach of collective memory.