first time since 1799*

@@Christian-ql7uq Haha yeah you right, I guess why you don't believe everything you read! Well we've got 5 ex's now so should be good. 😀

First time since 1933 (when Calvin Coolidge died) before that in 1908 (when Grover Cleveland died) before that in 1875 (when Andrew Johnson died) and before that in 1799 (when George Washington died). It's not many, but it's certainly notable how many times there have been no living past presidents.

@@TaijanDean Great info, this was a fun exercise! 😀

@@thud9797 My pleasure.

I bet the signal was for the producer on the floor

@@jljordan1 probably.

The goat News reporter 😊😊😊

Cronkite was a Communist.

It’s Cronkite

The greatest news anchor of all times

@@OhyesSofresh He was a Communist who hated the United States.

And I was alive to see both funerals televised. The Reverend Billy Graham was the one that conducted Johnson's funeral.

Interesting, didn’t know that!

The Reverend Billy Graham also presided at Richard Nixon's Funeral.

Not true. LBJ attended the inauguration of Dolph Briscoe as Governor of Texas on January 16, 1973. www.tsl.texas.gov/governors/modern/briscoe-p02.html

Was Truman funeral televised??

Truly....propaganda...not real news. #justsaying

Watched him all my life until he retired. I, even as a child, respected him!❤ 2:24

@@ClassicRoyal Cronkite was a Communist.

News became progressive and woke opinionated

No joke, Reagan's fault. He enacted rules that allowed news orgs to be profit-generating entertainment

In those days there weren't many channels to turn to. No 24 hr news cycle either.

And they weren't expected to have opinions one way or the other. They were trained and expected to be neutral, and let the people interpret the facts, one way or the other. Now everyone is an Op Ed "journalist". It's a shame, and it robbed the once honorable profession of journalism of every bit of its credibility.

Still do. Freedom of the Press. Radical Right wing extremist hates our Freedom of the Press.

News was a public service put out by broadcasters as part of their duty while holding a broadcast license. News wasn't expected to make money. Today it's called infotainment. And is all about getting the biggest share of ratings.

No fake news media like msnbc Fox News

I grew up watching Cronkite documentaries...incredible!

Imagine how long he would have lived if he never commissioned that study

​@georgecostanza9244 after he left the white house he ate and smoked himself to death

He should of just went to a crystal ball fortune teller would of saved alot of the American taxpayer money lol.

​@@georgecostanza9244kind of like the Doctor that had give a cancer patient 3 months to live The patient could come up with the money to pay the Doctors bill. So the Doctor gave him 3 more months to live.

I had ment the patient couldn't come up with the money. Damn auto spelling.

I met Mr. Cronkite in 1988 at Book People in Austin, Texas. A Texas treasure, both Cronkite and Johnson, with all their help from a grateful nation.

Truly a man with morals and integrity

When the news was REAL...

​@@endtheliesnow5906 Don't conflate news with cable news. Cable news channels need to fill 24 hours of programming with about 30 minutes of actual news.

I remarked, here, or maybe somewhere else, how Cronkite kept himself out of the story. The moment was all about LBJ and he wasn't going to get in the way giving himself a walk-on role. Great integrity.

That did him in...

Thanks to its leftist politics, it still is a little channel.

​@@jimfesta8981it's a known channel

​@jimfesta8981 it's not a leftist channel. Its huge now by speculation and headlines and not by reporting the news. Leftist or far righter it's a headline station that can attract views by mention of apparent news

BS. CNN's ratings are in the toilet. @@hazmat7949

​@@jimfesta8981under Tom Johnson,it was a good reliable source of journalism. Now,it,Fox News and MSNBC like to divide everyone for the ratings while all being owned by people within the same corporate umbrella.

Im 64 too

Do they still need you? Do they still feed you?

Lot of smoking and drinking and eating fatty foods and lack of exercise back then.

Sadly, all cable news channels national and local would also be doing that. Sensationalism has indeed murdered journalism.

Reagan killed it by destroying the Fairness Doctrine.

CNN, when? Look up the person he was talking to on that phone....

80 yrs old now...tell me...these news shows w/100 panel of "experts" unreal🤡🃏

“Breaking News”- by definition all news is “Breaking “

Like Tommy Lee Jones, he always looked about a decade older than he actually was.

One's Over 80 😳

The other one was Arrested on RICO and Racketeering Charges​@@wayneburch3775

I didn't realize he was that young. Scary, cuz that's my age! 😮

JB is over 80

Same here. Hello fellow Feb '73 baby. What a long, strange trip it's been.

@@daveubermensch 🙋🏻‍♀️Yes, it definitely has!

I second that motion! #justsaying

@@daveubermenschGen Xrs rule😊

So you were born on Christmas Day or the day before that?

Neither were the POW-MIA families. LBJ's "Keep Quiet" Policy about their loved ones' treatment in Hanoi caused them a LOT of grief-and that's on top of what the NVN inflicted.

@@mattwiser8406I think this silently killed him because he inherited this war. The men he had in charge kept lying to him about staying in the war when he wanted to end it almost as soon as he became president. Sadly, the casualties weighed heavily on him.

FLBJ he had Kenedy killed.

​@@DavidTucker-yk1bkWe Know 😊

@@DavidTucker-yk1bkAnd covered up the Liberty in 1967.

Tbh I think he would have lost to Nixon but RFK might’ve lived if we’re throwing a wrench in the timeline like that

@@jumbostorm887 Agreed, considering how tough LBJ had it with Vietnam placed squarely around his neck. Would’ve been interesting to see RFK vs Nixon. Who do you think would’ve won that matchup and why?

​@@edwardp3502This is of course impossible to answer, but I give RFK the edge. The number one issue in 1968 was Vietnam. This is a bit of generalization, but broadly most people wanted Vietnam to go away. Not necessarily lose the war, but to find a way to end the war without too much damage to American prestige. In the same speech announcing that he would run for president, LBJ ended rejecting a military solution to the war and chose the political solution by opening the peace talks in Paris. Nixon accepted of a political solution by promising to continue the peace talks and just presented as the man who could run the better bargain. Hence his slogan of "peace with honor" meant to appeal to both doves and hawks. Humphrey for a long time promised to continue LJB's policies. It is significant that Humphrey was laughing in the polls, but started to rise when gave a speech in Salt Lake City on 30 September 1968 that offered a much detailed peace plan than Nixon did. The 1968 election was extremely close with Nixon winning by a narrow margin. And there was Wallace running on a hawkish platform calling for a military solution to Vietnam. If Wallace was not running, those voters would have gone to Nixon. RFK was not made the mistake that Humphrey did of waiting too late to offer a detailed peace plan than Nixon did. RFK and LBJ hated each other, and Kennedy was not beholden to Johnson the same way Humphrey was. Humphrey had wanted to give his Salt Lake City speech at the Democratic convention in Chicago in August, but chose not to when LBJ told it would be disloyal for him to do that. RFK did not care about Johnson's feelings the way Humphrey did. So for it worth, RFK would had the advantage.

@@jumbostorm887Bobby Kennedy would’ve walked into the White House. It would’ve changed the entire political landscape for the next 30-40 years. We would’ve been spared corrupt administrations like Reagan and both Bushes. Sirhan Sirhan didn’t act alone. The kennedy’s and our country had many domestic enemies. If RFK lived he was going to end the Vietnam war. That meant billions lost to a lot of powerful corporations.

He figured he wouldn't live through a second term. He said "Americans are tired of seeing their leaders die while in office".

He was long dead before the plane ride to San Antonio. In an interview seen on television in the 1990’s, a former ranch hand who was employed at the Johnson ranch stated LBJ was found dead on the floor of a tiny bedroom on the first floor off the kitchen of the ranch house. He technically was pronounced dead on the plane, but for all intents & purposes he died before he hit the floor. The protocols then were much different than today. Back then everyone got resuscitated. Now paramedics would pronounce DOA.

His heart was weak already. Vietnam and the Civil unrest did him in.

@@moboutmenNot to mention the lifetime of chain smoking.

Was he corrupt, *YES, Absolutely!!!* Was he the most corrupt of them all???? *Not at all!!* Especially when you compare today’s political candidates!! Having to keep his mouth shut for Carlos might have been what did him in, considering that Vietnan had made him the most hated man in the world. He had finally got his dream come true of becoming pres. and holding numerous political records, but never realized until he was almost done w/ his term. Even watching the Kennedy bros., who berrated him on a regular basis get taken down and replaced by him and his buddies, seemed to still not even make the guy happy in the end!! Those may have been the moments that I believe made political figures like Johnson and Nixon “soften up” or become “less bitter” w/ age and as the war progressed.

⁠LBJ heart condition was blamed on the fat he had in his diet. If course it simply couldn't have anything to do with his lifetime commitment to chain smoking. Smoking was safe according to experts paid for by the tobacco industry

I understand he drank a lot too.

Cry

What a legend

Interesting that Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, America's birthday.

I came the year after that.

Cronkite was a Communist.

Sorry bucko, Jon Stewart is not a journalist, never has been and he's unlikely to ever become one. Snuffleofolis, OTH, moved from being a political media type to becoming a political media type just as LBJ's media man moved to become head of CNN at its founding. Similarly, Roger Aisles, who had long been a Republican operative, was the leader of the creation of Fox News. And, on Fox News there are 'comedians' that pump out right wing slop by the truckload. Guys like Gutfeld and Steven Crowder who was on Fox until about 2013.

You think Jon Stewart is a journalist? Man you’re messed up.

He was unelectable in 1968.

​@@MarkHarrison733You mean he didn't have the right to run or that he wouldn't win against Nixon?

@@Dimitristhe So many young people were against him due to Vietnam; and the Tet Offensive made even more people doubt the truthfulness of the American government and military. And we only had a couple years with the Voting Rights Act that both parties favored Blacks voting. Nixon then devised "the Southern Strategy" to move Southerners from the Democratic to the Republican Party because of race. Nixon may have undermined the peace talks with North Vietnam as well. I read the election of 1968 was extremely close; had Humphrey scored enough votes to win California, Ohio and Illinois, he would have won. Who knows if Johnson had run whether he could have defeated Nixon?

Best book I have ever read. McMaster doesn’t miss a single fact. I lost my only brother to Agent Orange.

The US involvement continued until the very end.

He was a lefty but he really didn't show it during his broadcast career. He did his job, what he was supposed to do. And report the news fairly. What a true journalist used to do.

Hows the MK Ultra going for you....

He was a truly great man. His announcing how many troops died every day in Vietnam was credited with ending our involvement there. If he said it you could be sure it was the truth. I am sorry there is no one like him today.

I'd love to get the number to that phone behind him oh the pranks i could do........Who answers the phone on live television?

Everyone that knew him has said basically the same thing.LBJ wasn’t a bc good guy

The flip side is everything I’ve read and heard was that Lady Bird was an excellent first lady, and treated everyone around her wonderfully.

He was a crass old man who could not stop talking about his johnson. No lie.

LBJ never gave up his racist side of him. The real reason why he signed the 1964 civil rights bill into law was to ensure that African-Americans ("N-word" he called them) kept voting Democrat for the next 200 years. He never wanted equality for everyone. It was strictly a political ploy for the Democratic Party. He was phony from the word "go".

And a guilty conscience. He was a ruthless man. Anything to get ahead.

That what Arteriosclerosis, Heart Disease does.

It was also the same day as the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision on abortion.

He did that from all the guilt he harbored

@@debbiebrantley61 Johnson tried to negotiate a ending to the war in Vietnam before he left office. Nixon committed treason when he told the S. Vietnamese government that they would get a better deal under his administration. Historical note: The war dragged on another 5 years and didn't end well for S. Vietnam.

He felt guilty over taking out JFK.

We sure did. It's embarrassing now.

He was a totally different Democrat. Pretty sure he'd shake his head at how both parties are now.

​@@quentincampbell612he'd laugh at trumps cult

Trump's cult didn't get 58,000 Americans killed in Viet Nam @@gregtennessee8249

Socialism failed again

That's because JFK was more beloved, younger and was actually in office when he died.

@@Tunneltwj and he wasn’t murdered

From my understanding, he stopped smoking when he either became President or Vice President, but after he left office, he stopped caring about his health and started smoking heavily again, which caused his health to rapidly decline.

Trivial pursuits is not just a game name.

Destroyed this country.

@@robertjoyce4739 Nah, he only "destroyed" his lungs.

@@metroidnerd9001, he stopped smoking in 1955 after his first heart attack and you are correct he did start smoking again after leaving the White House (literally on the flight back to Texas)

That’s his own fault,Vietnam coukd r been over in a few months had he ever listened to his military advisors.

Lady Bird Johnson was one of the most gracious first ladies ever. She is the person responsible for Texas' love for wildflowers, especially the Texas bluebonnets and she outlived him by over 45 years.

@@SMcCaskill Lady Bird is quite beloved.

A day off from school? We did not get one and I honestly would not remember when he died anyway. I only looked at this because it was Walter Cronkite

@@Maya-bu2rf National Day of Mourning. Presidential Funerals are typically National Holidays. I remember I was so happy for a day off from school and my mom told me it wasn't going to be a fun day for the Johnson family.

@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont I would have been a high school senior then. I was 8 in 3rd grade when JFK died. That I remember like it was yesterday. LBJ was a president but I felt nothing about him like a lot of people because of how he became president. If I knew it happened at the time I would have felt bad for Lady Bird. The only news thing I remember from early that year was the release of the Vietnam POW's. I wore an ID bracelet with the name, rank, and date of plane or helicopter crash. My POW was released on the first flight out of Hanoi. I remember seeing his name on the list. I know there was no day off from school for LBJ for us. Maybe in some places, but not here.

I was in 3rd grade also I'm 60 yrs old know, where has the Time gone ?

I was in 5th grade and I don’t remember any of it. When we pulled out of Vietnam not long after this, I had no clue we had been in a war. I was like “we were in a war? Hmmm”😂 My parents shielded us from the news. The TV was OFF at dinner time.

LBJ admitted he wanted Nixon to win instead of McGovern.

@@MarkHarrison733 Nobody, except the fools in Massachusetts, wanted McGovern. And Nixon’s record of success and significant accomplishment in his first term was compelling. But Nixon succeeded where LBJ failed and I am sure that galled LBJ.

No one knows who wrote that stuff. All the Bible’s writers were anonymous except a couple. And there’s no proof of any of that is true. The Bible is the most immoral book ever written. If people actually read it and we’re honest that’s the conclusion they would come to.

Amen -

Amen and thank you for the scripture

Ezekiel 23:20

@@jamesrecknor6752 I think Hell was made for LBJ. I am not a believer, full disclosure, but I do think the Bible puts things very succinctly in many places. I hope you have a great day, and stay clear of the war mongers...

A step forward in reproductive healthcare for the maternal side. It is disgusting that the ruling was reversed after nearly 50 years.

Had LBJ run in 1968 and won reelection his term would have expired 2 days earlier than his death

And the same day the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was announced, which made the timing of Johnson's death almost eerie. It was a history-packed newscast.

​@@Kentrc11Nothing says maternal love like death 😊

Not a good day for babies, or LBJ.

It’s likely your TV was still black and white because CBS had color broadcasts starting in 1951.

There was no black & white news in the 70's.. in the US

You were obviously watching on a black and white TV, or you're misrembering. Of course it was in color!

A copy previously posted to KZfaq (with the date and time stamped on top) came from the Vanderbilt news archives, which was still recording in B&W in 1973.

@@andyrose5616yeah that’s where I first saw this clip was by that archive.

By the time Andrew Johnson died in 1875, there was no living ex President until Grant left office in 1877

What else could we do😮

It was a different era, and Walter Cronkite was perhaps the only person who could pull that off. Today they'd cut to a commercial.

Trump gets a free ride?

He just reported the facts. Didn’t insert his own personal politics into his broadcasts.

Walter Cronkite & others just reported the news that’s it. These talking heads don’t even know how to do that today.

Walter Cronkite was a partisan whose OPINION on Vietnam after the Tet Offensive helped polarize the country giving aide to the communists in North Vietnam and the domestic communists here in America.

@@paulwomack3845 But what he said was true. And show's that Cronkite was not a biased partisan. Cronkite said later in life he was a Democrat. But the Vietnam commentary on Tet came during a Democratic administration. If he was a biased partisan, he would not have said that during President Johnson's administration.

His stress level as President would have been higher, but otherwise he might have taken care of his health better. Who knows?

We had color tv by then.

And, a Peter Jennings!

Dead air but the substance and worthiness of the news is missed. Now you news alert for a car chase or bank robbery. I missed the news being news and I disagree. Journalist and role of real journalist (not new celebrities) currently is weak and suspect.

LBJ was a complicated President but his Great Society and dedication to Civil Rights still help provide for the most vulnerable and people who want nothing more than the American Dream. Though Vietnam was a terrible mistake and a quagmire that buried so many Americans and Vietnamese and did so with no purpose or victory, his affect on the Home Front can never be forgotton.

He destroyed the american family, greenlit Vietnam, and arguably had JFK assassinated@@sagesigman8269

Just like Biden..

​@@user-zq4fv8sj6vYou misspelled Trump

Crooked

He had prevented the military from being able to win from the very beginning.