CNN The Sixties June 4, 2024 06:26:00
'61, the same oath the president takes. >> johnson wanted to show the american people that the government was functioning without interruption. and also, perhaps, he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon baines johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government, at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world. >> we think november 22nd, 1963 as a date when a president was killed. but it was also a date when a president was created. >> is there any d...