If not for the 'biggest damned mess' he ever saw, the 36th president's fight for civil rights might have been the most significant fight in his life.
President Lyndon B Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965. Civil rights was his crowning achievement, but the Vietnam War was his undoing.SAN ANTONIO — On Dec. 12, 1972, having driven through an ice storm to get to Austin, Lyndon Johnson attended a civil rights symposium at the LBJ Presidential Library. It had been little more than four years since he had left the presidency at age 60.
On the afternoon of Jan. 22, 1973, Johnson, 64, suffered a heart attack at his ranch near Stonewall and was pronounced dead at Brooke Army Medical Center. Fifty years after his death, through his Great Society programs — Medicare, Medicaid, school reforms, urban renewal and civil rights legislation — Johnson’s imprint on the United States is indelible. But his presidency lost its way in the jungles of Vietnam, in a war he knew was unwinnable.
Calling Johnson larger than life doesn’t do justice to his complex character, the scope of his successes and the abysmal depth of his failure.
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