Incredibly, Johnson would die at the age of 64. He was dealing with heart issues, had taken up smoking again, and had put on weight since leaving office. A series of heart attacks lead to tests that revealed the need for bypass surgery, although it was felt that he would not survive t...
On October 27, the U.S. Mint offered the2015 Lyndon B. Johnson Coin and Chronicles Set. Similar sets had been released for the other three Presidential Dollars issued during the year. The present set included one Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Dollar struck with a Reverse Proof finish, one ...
Many of you in this Chamber are among my oldest friends. We have shared many happy moments and many hours of work, and we have watched many Presidents together. Yet, only in the White House can you finally know the full weight of this Office. The greatest burden is not running the huge...
As Johnson's biographer Robert Caro observes, "Johnson's ambition was uncommon—in the degree to which it was unencumbered by even the slightest excess weight of ideology, of philosophy, of principles, of beliefs." Senate years 1948 contested election In 1948, Johnson again ran for the Senate...
and historians as motivated throughout his life by an exceptional lust for power and control. As Johnson"s biographer Robert Caro observes, "Johnson"s ambition was uncommon—in the degree to which it was unencumbered by even the slightest excess weight of ideology, of philosophy, of principles,...