Anniversary
When the ex-president suddenly died 40 years ago today, aide Tom Johnson was the one who told the world.
Tom Johnson was one of Lyndon B. Johnson's closest aides. He also served as president of CNN in the '90s and publisher of the Los Angeles Times before that.
One of Lyndon B. Johnson's closest aides explains how the whatever-it-takes Texan would have gotten a health-care-reform bill passed through sheer will.