50 years ago yesterday, I was at Chaffee Motors (Ford dealer) in Hawthorne, California after taking my dad there so he could pick up his car that had some mechanical work done.
While there, I heard on the radio that former President Lyndon Johnson died. The next evening, January 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the Vietnam Peace Agreement that ended the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
What caused this memory was a Twitter post by the Richard Nixon Foundation of yesterday.
They posted:
Lyndon Baines Johnson died 50 years ago today. The following night on January 23, President Nixon would go on live television to announce the end of the Vietnam War. After the announcement he wrote this letter to Lady Bird Johnson.
It is hard to believe that 50 years has passed.
Unfortunately, the peace agreement only held for two years.
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