author of the passage of power, your fourth book on lyndon johnson. why was he concerned about the health of his family? meeting his father and brothers? yukiya element in his life was his absolute belief he would die young. there was a saying when i was interviewing people in the hill country that he would die young. his father died of heart failure after he had been sick for many years with a bad hard before that. his uncle died at the age of 57 of a massive heart attack suddenly. the third uncle lived i think until he also had heart trouble. johnson has he knows he resembles his father amazingly physically. both have big ears and even had the same way of putting his arm around you. he is to say i will be dead at 60. used to say he will be dead at 60. he had a rush to accomplish things. one was his first protack? in 1955. what impact did that have? it was a massive heart attack. the only give them a 50% chance of living. and that must reinforced the feelin