LBJ while talking to Walter Cronkite for what turned out to be his last TV interview (about civil rights), tomorrow 1973, ten days before his death at age 64: 
FDR at home in Warm Springs, Georgia, April 1945, the day before he died at age 63:
Ad for posthumous broadcast of LBJ’s last TV interview, conducted tomorrow 1973:
On day of his death at LBJ Ranch, this month 1973, ex-President Johnson told his friend and Secret Service agent Mike Howard,
"Sweetheart, don’t worry about me. None of the men in my family live past sixty-five, and I’m not worried about it. I’m ready to go."
"Sweetheart, don’t worry about me. None of the men in my family live past sixty-five, and I’m not worried about it. I’m ready to go."
Two months after youngest son Quentin was killed over World War I France, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, September 1918, four months before his own death at age sixty:
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