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Michael Beschloss

11 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read

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."

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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