Trivia

One day after he died, a ceasefire in Vietnam was reached.

It took him several hours to realize he was experiencing his first heart attack.

First member of Congress to enlist in the armed forces in World War II; served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific.

Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy who was JFK's Attorney General and then a Senator from New York, harbored a strong dislike for Johnson, a feeling that was mutual.

The only U.S. President to attempt to end national poverty.

Johnson and his wife marched in JFK's funeral procession despite being told not to by the Secret Service and the FBI, in fear of a second assassination. He was later paraphrased as saying he "could do, should do, would do, and did" march in the procession.

One of his favorite songs was Simon & Garfunkel's ''Bridge over Troubled water''.

In 1953, he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, and the following year, when the Democrats won control, Majority Leader.

Served in the U.S. Senate, 3 January 1949 - 3 January 1961. Had been simultaneously elected vice-president and reelected to the Senate in November 1960; resigned from the Senate to become vice president on 20 January 1961.

Johnson was the only living former President when he died.

John F. Kennedy, fearful of Johnson's support of civil rights, sent him to Norway the day of Martin Luther King's famed March on Washington. Kennedy biographer Arthur Schlesinger said that Kennedy's best spirit was largely absent that day.

Played by Michael Gambon in Path to War (2002), Liev Schreiber in The Butler (2013), Tom Wilkinson in Selma (2014), Sean McGraw in Parkland (2013), Bryan Cranston in All the Way (2016), and Woody Harrelson in LBJ (2016).

Made a point of always addressing rival Robert F. Kennedy as "Son" or "Sonny Boy" (to emphasize how much of his success he owed to Joseph P. Kennedy).

Was the last US president of the 20th Century to smoke cigarettes. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford smoked pipes; Ronald Reagan and George Bush were nonsmokers; Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton smoked an occasional cigar.

In 1964, Johnson won the Presidency with 61 percent of the vote and had one of the widest popular margin in American history--more than 15,000,000 votes. To date, no candidate, Democrat or Republican, has managed to best his 1964 electoral result (Richard Nixon, however, did come close and won 60.7% of the popular vote).

His 1964 presidential campaign slogans included: "All the way with LBJ", and "LBJ for the USA."

A frequent anti-war chant was, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"

One of his final public appearances was the state funeral of Harry S. Truman, less than a month before his own death.

In his last will and testament, he left his portion of property jointly owned with his wife Lady Bird, an estate estimated to be worth $20 million in trust in equal shares to his two daughters.

He went to a one-room school that only had one teacher. His graduating class (which he was president of) only had six people.

Smoked 60 cigarettes a day until having a near-fatal heart attack on 2 July 1955.

After he retired from the presidency, CBS-TV paid him $100,000 per television interview in a package deal which included the publication of his memoirs by a CBS subsidiary, Holt, Reinhart & Winston.

His favorite actress was Laraine Day but she caused him great disappointment when he discovered she was a staunch Republican.

During his time as a member of the House of Representatives, he oversaw ''Operation Texas'', a covert mission which relocated hundreds of Jews from Europe and brought them to Texas.

During the Suez Crisis he tried to prevent the US government from criticizing the Israeli invasion of the Sinai peninsula.

Thirty-sixth president of the United States of America, 22 November, 1963 - 20 January, 1969.

Graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College.

Father-in-law of Chuck Robb (husband of daughter Lynda).

He was interred at the LBJ Ranch in Blanco County, Texas.

Vice President of The United States (20 January 1961 - 22 November 1963).

He was an admirer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was rumored he did not attend the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 because Churchill had not attended Roosevelt's funeral twenty years earlier. Officially Johnson did not attend because he had a heavy cold.

Before he announced he would not run for reelection in 1968, his opponent, Richard Nixon declared his intention to seek the GOP nomination. Critics called a choice between Nixon and Johnson "a choice between obscenity and vulgarity!".

Per President Johnson's request, Billy Graham preached the eulogy and Anita Bryant sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic at his funeral burial service in Stonewall, Texas. (January 1973)

As of 2016, he's the only Democratic presidential candidate to win Alaska.

Only U.S. President to have taken the oath of office aboard Air Force One, as administered by Judge Sarah T. Hughes, the first and only woman to swear in a President. This occurred at Love Field Airport two hours and eight minutes after John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on Friday 22 November 1963. The iconic swearing-in image captured by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton aboard Air Force One included (l to r): Malcolm Kilduff, Judge Sarah T. Hughes, Jack Valenti (crouching), Albert Thomas (D-TX), Marie Fehmer (behind Thomas), Lady Bird Johnson, Dallas Police Chief Jesse E. Curry, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Evelyn Lincoln (eyeglasses only visible above LBJ's shoulder) (personal secretary to JFK), Judge Homer Thornberry (in shadow partially obscured by LBJ), Roy Kellerman (partially obscured by Thornberry), Thomas Lemuel Johns (partially obscured by Mrs. Kennedy), Jacqueline Kennedy, Pamela Turnure (behind Brooks) (press secretary to JFK), Jack Brooks (D-TX), Bill Moyers (mostly obscured by Brooks).

At 6'3 1/2", he was the second tallest President of the United States, being half an inch shorter than Abraham Lincoln. However Johnson's peak height is disputed, and some people believe he was a fraction under 6'3". As president he appeared to be around 6'2".

Served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 10 April, 1937 - 3 January, 1949.

Daughters: Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson.

Pictured on a commemorative four-cent postage label issued by the (now defunct) Independent Postal System of America in 1973.

He was the only President born and raised in Texas (both Presidents George Bush, the elder, and George W. Bush, the younger, were born in New England; Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas, but raised in Kansas).

During his 1964 campaign, he portrayed his opponent Barry Goldwater as a warmonger who, if elected president, would start a nuclear war. He ran the infamous "Daisy" ad, which featured a girl counting daisy petals, followed by a countdown and a mushroom cloud. This attack ad was believed to have helped him defeat Goldwater in a landslide.

A heavy smoker, Johnson had already suffered at least one heart attack before becoming President at the age of 55.

His television ads ended with the slogan, "Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home."

Started smoking again after he left the White House in 1969, and put on weight. In April 1972 he suffered a third heart attack, but would not give up his old habits. "I'm an old man", he once explained, "so what's the difference? My body it just aging in its own way.".

His time in extremely poor schools in bad neighborhoods, both as a teacher and a student, is what inspired him to make Education a major priority in his political career.

Johnson was very angry about the UK's refusal to send any soldiers to Vietnam, even threatening to bankrupt the British economy. In December 1964 he asked Harold Wilson to send a token division. However it would have been impossible for the UK to support the conflict after the Suez Crisis, and because public opinion was almost universally opposed to US involvement in Vietnam.

Worked as a schoolteacher before entering politics.

He was widely blamed for the USS Liberty incident, where 34 American crew members were killed by an Israeli air strike during the Six Day War.

Is not related in any way to former U.S. President Andrew Johnson. They are currently the only two U.S. Presidents who have the same surname but do not share any of the same ancestors dating back centuries.

As a Senate candidate he virtually endorsed white supremacy.