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mahatmakanejeeves

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4. Former President Johnson, greatly upset, after viewing the casket of the late President Truman ...

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Mon Dec 27, 2021, 05:31 PM

Dec 2021

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

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December 26, 1972, former President Harry S. Truman dies in Independence, Missouri. [View all] Sherman A1 Dec 2021 OP

"President Richard Nixon called Truman a man of 'forthrightness and integrity'" rsdsharp Dec 2021 #1

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I'll always remember that President Harry Truman was the man who integrated the U.S. abqtommy Dec 2021 #3

Former President Johnson, greatly upset, after viewing the casket of the late President Truman ... mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 #4