including Lyndon B. Johnson’s funeral in 1973, Ronald Reagan’s in 2004, Gerald R. Ford’s in 2007, and George H.W. Bush’s in 2018. Richard Nixon died in 1994 after suffering a stroke.

One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson ... somewhere yet…but when MLK died it made the national mood that ...