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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1973
Page
1
This first of five Associated Press pieces probes Lyndon Baines Johnson as a paradoxical leader. It traces a frontier temper and magnetic power to a presidency that impressed insiders yet left the nation divided and distrustful.
Lyndon B. Johnson, famed for striving to balance duty and retirement, reflects on two homes Texas hill country and Washington, D C The piece traces his push for peace in Vietnam, his desire to teach, and a planned Texas presidential library as he faced a pivotal, controversial final tenure in the White House. It notes his ambitions for cancer and heart disease cures and his evolving stance amid 1968 party pressures.
At the annual meeting of Trinity United Church of Christ, Hase was elected president for a three year term. New church council members include Mrs. James Bearden Mrs. Clark Stephens and William Hase with Dale Schwarre as vice president and Russell Hackman treasurer. Also named were Kenneth Jaeger financial secretary Mrs Bearden Christian education and Tim Wehlewald worship and evangelism.
The Nation's 36th President dies ending a life shaped by civil rights aims and wartime leadership. Tributes from Humphrey and student leaders honor his civil rights push as Nixon orders flags at half staff. Johnson's death closes a long public arc from rural Texas beginnings to the presidency born after Kennedy's assassination.
The nation will honor Lyndon B. Johnson with a Washington Capitol rotunda service followed by burial at the LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, Texas. A detailed timeline covers state wake at the LBJ Library, travel via Bergstrom Air Force Base, Andrews AFB, a Capitol procession, and funeral rites at National City Christian Church and the family cemetery.
A retrospective on Lyndon Johnson as a civil rights champion who shifted from wary reluctant Democrat to chief advocate. The piece cites his landmark 1964 65 civil rights laws, his 1965 push backed by JFK memory, and his late life reaffirmation of equality as his lasting legacy. It notes reactions from leaders like Rev. Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall, and recalls the 1968 King's assassination and Johnson's renewed pledge to end hatred and promote unity.
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