Johnson called Bob Waldron to commiserate about the colossal burden that had just been placed upon his shoulders.Ī native of Arp, Texas, a town of fewer than 1,000 inhabitants some 125 miles east of the city where Johnson’s predecessor, John F. O n November 23, 1963, the morning after he swore the oath of office in an impromptu ceremony aboard Air Force One, President Lyndon B.
