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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon Jan 22, 2024, 07:15 AM Jan 2024

On this day, January 22, 1973, Lyndon Baines Johnson died.

LBJ while talking on camera to Walter Cronkite, ten days before the end {January 22,} 1973:





Tue Dec 26, 2023: On this day, December 26, 1972, former President Harry S. Truman died in Independence, Missouri.

Former President Johnson, greatly upset, with his family, after viewing the casket of the late President Truman, Independence, Missouri, tomorrow 1972. Lady Bird Johnson once told me that LBJ’s distress contributed to his own death less than four weeks later: #Maple

When he saw Truman’s coffin, amid the honors paid to a dead President, LBJ knew he was in final stages of cardiovascular disease and may have felt that he was looking at his own.





Sat Jan 23, 2021: On January 22, 1973, LBJ died.
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