Date of Death: January 22, 1973 (Monday) Place of Death: Johnson City, Texas Place of Burial: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Johnson City, Texas Cause of Death: Heart attack Age: 64 years old Length of Retirement: 1463 days Religion: Disciples of Christ Party: Democrat Lyndon...
Today’s conventional wisdom about Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency tends to see a liberalism that largely failed due to domestic policy overreach and the administration’s disastrous handling of the Vietnam War, and that set in in motion two generations of reactionary politics. While th...
More Dead From the start of Nixon’s presidency in 1969, the U.S. participation in the Vietnam War continued for more than four years at horrendous cost to both the United States and the people of Vietnam. Having allegedly made his secret commitment to the South Vietnamese regime, Nixon ...
Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race -- by initiating Project Apollo (which would culminate in the moon landing), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam ...
—died January 22, 1973, San Antonio, Texas) was the 36thpresidentof theUnited States(1963–69). A moderateDemocratand vigorous leader in the United StatesSenate, Johnson was electedvice presidentin 1960 and acceded to the presidency in 1963 upon theassassinationof Pres.John F. Kennedy. ...