52 years ago today, on January 22, 1973 (December 19, 1972 lunar calendar), Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, passed away at the age of 64. Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, held talks with Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin in Grasburg, New Jersey, to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, a Democrat. Born in Stonewall, near Johnson City, Texas in 1908. He studied at Georgetown University Law School in Washington in 1935. He filled a vacancy in the House of Representatives in 1937 and served as a Senator from 1949 to 1961. In 1960, he fought for the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention and lost to Kennedy. After being nominated by Kennedy as a vice presidential candidate, he won the election. He became vice president in 1961. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson succeeded him as president. He was re-elected as president in January 1965. During his term, he proposed the "Great Society" plan and the "War on Poverty" plan with the main content of building cities and villages and beautifying the environment. In April 1965, he began to interfere in other countries' internal affairs and expand the war of aggression against Vietnam, resulting in financial difficulties, the people's anti-war movement rose, and internal contradictions within the ruling group intensified. In March 1968, he announced that he would no longer run for election. He returned to his hometown on January 20, 1969. He died on January 22, 1973.