One of the last public photos (August 1972) of Lyndon
Johnson five months before his death.  

After leaving the White House in 1968, L.B.J. returned to his
beloved home state, Texas, with his wife, Lady Bird Johnson,
and immersed himself in the activity dearest to him: ranching.

On January 22, 1973, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson
died in Johnson City, Texas having suffered a fatal heart attack
in his home at age 64.

The First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson aboard
Airforce One after JFK was assassinated.

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Johnson served
as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

 
1964

World War II restrictions cut deep into every American pantry
as federal officials announced that sliced bread would be
rationed on this day in history, Jan. 18, 1943.

"I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to
the morale and saneness of a household," distraught mother
Sue Forrester of Fairfield, Connecticut, claiming to speak on
behalf of America’s housewives, lamented in a New York Times
letter to the editor.

Wartime rationing had already caused severe restrictions on
the nation’s household food supply.

Basic resources were devoted in ever-growing volume to the
war effort in 1943, as the tide of battle turned and the U.S. and
its Allies went on the offensive across the vast expanse of two
oceans.

Bread rationing marked the depths of sacrifices on the home
front. 

Young boy with a war ration book at a supermarket, as
children were taught the facts of point rationing during
the war.

The Peace Patrol was a U.S. Savings Stamp and Bond program
targeted at school-aged children called “Little Savers” that was
launched in the late 1950s.

                              Alice Sanger (1864 – 1941)

President Benjamin Harrison welcomes Alice Sanger as the first
female White House staffer on January 2, 1890.

President Benjamin Harrison (1833 – 1901)

The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, collectively
known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified following vigorous
national debate on this day in history, Dec. 15, 1791.

The passage came three-and-a-half years after the Constitution
was enacted to become the framework of the government on
June 21, 1788.