News about Lyndon B. Johnson

SARAH VINE: With the possible exception of my friend Sebastian, who approaches the entire holiday season with precision planning that may put some of the world's finest strategic minds to shame, Christmas is mainly a woman's occupation. Present-shopping, tree-sourcing, decorating, food-buying, house-cleaning, spare bed-making, granny-wrangling, teacher-gifting, and remembering to provide for the family's basic needs - in the vast majority of households, those duties (and often more) fall to the lady of the house. Blokes tend to honed in more on the festive season's lunchtime drinking aspects. 'He's essentially p***** between now and next year,' one friend told me recently.' I always remember my ex-husband's enquiring vaguely, usually around teatime on December 24, what 'we'd bought for the children.'

A child in Colombia died after reportedly contracting a brain-eating bug from a swimming pond. Stefana Villamizar González, 10, was on vacation with her family in June when she exhibited ear pain, fever, and vomiting. Though her symptoms improved when she returned home two weeks later, she had trouble getting out of bed and started convulsing. She died of central nervous system infection amoebic encephalitis after three weeks. It was likely caused by Naegleria fowleri, also known as 'brain-eating amoeba,' which lurks in fresh water and kills 97 percent of its victims, according to experts. Only four Americans have survived.

An Arizonan has been charged with Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba. The state and Mohave County health departments informed DailyMail.com that the illness had not been reported and that it was not reported. We also refused to disclose the individual's name and current health. Only four Americans who have ever been diagnosed with the deadly disease have lived to tell the tale. Kali Hardig, [left] is a student at the University of Arkansas and was just 12 years old when Naegleria struck her. Caleb Ziegelbauer [right], a 14-year-old boy from Florida, has now been infected with the microscopic species for a year.

The cartoonist, who has worked with the Left-wing newspaper for more than 40 years, has been told that after submitting a drawing of the Israeli leader with a scalpel over his exposed belly, he would no longer be allowed to publish his work. Gaza is the political cartoonist. Critics have interpreted this to be a nod to Shylock, Shakespeare's Jewish moneylender, who has yearned a 'pound of flesh' from someone who is unable to pay him back. Mr Bell has declined to apologize, telling Press Gazette that the cartoon has nothing to do with Venetian merchants, and he would not dream' of propagating anti-Jewish stereotypes.

After being exposed in a Little Rock country club, an Arkansas boy named Michael Alexander Pollock III died after being diagnosed with a rare brain-eating amoeba. The Arkansas Department of Health reported through lab testing that the splash pad where the young boy and perhaps many other children were playing had signs of the infamous amoeba, prompting the exclusive club to close down its swimming pool and water playground.

Paul Landis, 88, broke his silence on Saturday, nearly 60 years since Kennedy was killed in a motorcade passing through Dallas to showcase his bombshell recollection. Landis, a young Secret Service agent sent to shield First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy, said he picked up a nearly flawless bullet on the roof of the open limousine, just behind where Kennedy was sitting when he was killed, and laid it on the president's hospital stretcher to keep it safe for the autopsy investigators. That bullet, which was the first piece of evidence logged in the murder probe, was found on Texas Governor John Connally's stretcher and was hypothesized to have fallen free from a wound to his thigh.

The individual, who was not identified, swam in Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, which is about an hour from Austin, Texas, before becoming sick with the amoeba.

A noxious cloud of sulfur and carbon monoxide began to envelop New York City beginning on Thanksgiving weekend in 1966. The cloud cover will be regarded as the smog of 1966 in New York City, and it remains one of America's worst pollution episodes. In the 1960s, smog in New York City was common. There were 168 deaths attributed to the 1966 smog, which also caused health problems for ten percent of the entire NYC population.

Dan Szymborski spent his holiday in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to produce all 46 US presidents as Pixar characters. Lyndon B. Johnson, an ultra-realistic sculptor, to current President Joe Biden with a prominent forehead and a receding hairline. 'I just thought I'd goof around and make some presidential AI art this weekend,' he told DailyMail.com. He used Midjourney v4 to produce the images, saying it made Dwight Eisenhower's portrait his favorite, but Calvin Coolidge's portrait was his favorite, as it seemed as though Silent Cal was searching for someone to fight.' As the AI bot 'gave him a tiny, jaunty top hat,' he said James Garfield was another one of his favorites.'

President JFK and his wife Jackie spent the day in Houston on a tour on November 21, 1963, the day before the president's assassination. The photographs, with the exception of Jackie Kennedy's white dress, are eerily close to the famous images shot around the world 24 hours after JFK was fired.

Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences as tributes have pour in from around the world following the assassination of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Putin reached out to King Charles III in a telegram in the midst of prosecuting his bloody and brutal war against Ukraine, which has caused relations between Russia and Ukraine to even lower levels. The Russian tyrant wrote, 'The most significant events in the recent history of the United Kingdom are inextricably linked to Her Majesty's name.' Elizabeth II lauded the love and admiration of her subjects for many decades, as well as international recognition.' I wish you strength and perseverance in the midst of such sadness and irreparable loss.' I ask you to express sincere sympathy and support to the members of the royal family and all the people of the United Kingdom.' The condolences came after the Queen seemed to have subtly taken Putin when they met in 2003 during a state visit to the UK, the first by a Russian king since the reign of Queen Victoria in 1874.

After 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II's death sets off a top-secret military-precision process, 'London Bridge,' restarting the formal procedures when the ruling British monarch is dead. Operation Unicorn is in operation in Scotland, rather than in London or Windsor. Her Majesty died in Scotland at her beloved Balmoral Castle rather than in London or Windsor. The code is part of long-running plans codenamed Operation London Bridge, which were first launched in the 1960s but never officially opened. The United Kingdom will enter a 10-day national mourning period.