The man behind it was President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who reached the White House amid a national tragedy but grabbed the reins of power quickly and purposefully, bent on transforming the country.

The last time a Democratic president died was in 1973 when Lyndon Baines Johnson passed away at the ... the president,” according to the US Army Military District of Washington.

When last we hung out with ol' Beej, he was slung against a fence post, chawing a strand of hay (did we imagine this?), telling tales about this and that while rocking his Stetson, rancher blue ...