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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from January 20, 1969, until his resignation on August 9, 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously held the office of Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. Nixon's presidency is noted for significant foreign policy achievements, including the historic opening of relations with China and the policy of détente with the Soviet Union. Domestically, he is recognized for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency and implementing various social programs.
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Yet Lyndon Johnson's legacy extends far beyond his years in the Congress.
And as President, he was devoted in a very special way to the land he loved.
For it was his noble and difficult destiny to lead America through a long, dark night of necessity at home and abroad.
Yet it can be said of Lyndon Johnson that he served his country all his life, for his was a complete and wholehearted love of our Nation.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-third day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-three and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-seventh.
I hereby order that suitable honors be rendered by units of the Armed Forces under orders of the Secretary of Defense on the day of the funeral.
I do further appoint Thursday, January 25, 1973 to be a National Day of Mourning throughout the United States.
It is my sad duty to announce officially the death of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the thirty-sixth President of the United States, on January 22, 1973.
It is my sad duty to inform you officially of the death of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the thirty-sixth President of the United States.
He was devoted to the cause of freedom and equality for his fellow man.
But he did much more, and his role then was not a high-water mark but a hallmark.
Although he will no longer walk among us, Lyndon Johnson's influence on our times, which often seemed so much larger than life, cannot be stolen from us by death.
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and the fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.
All executive departments, independent establishments, and other governmental agencies, including their field services, shall be closed on Thursday, January 25, 1973 as a mark of respect for Lyndon Baines Johnson, the thirty-sixth…
His loss is especially poignant for all of us who knew him and worked with him in the House and Senate.
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Even as we mourn his death, we are grateful for his life, which did so much to make those dreams into realities.
In my Inaugural Address just e days ago I spoke of how my thoughts went back to those who stood in that place before me and of the dreams they had for America.
It is particularly heartbreaking that even as our flags fly at half-staff in President Truman's memory, another of our leaders has fallen.
To President Johnson, the 'American Dream' was not a catch phrase--it was a reality of his own life.
As I said at the dedication of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, he was a 'partisan of principle.'
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