In the week before Thanksgiving 1963, JFK died and LBJ began a social legacy
“Johnson was never a match for the man from Camelot, but Lyndon Johnson had to make that most abrupt of transitions during Thanksgiving, 1963.” –John Hockenberry on Thanksgiving 45 years ago
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