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When he left the White House in 1969, he returned to his native Texas, where he'd later pen his memoirs (see Trivia below). A lifetime of smoking would eventually catch up with him however, and he'd suffer multiple heart attacks. The last one took his life on January 22, 1973, just two days after Richard Nixon was sworn in for his second term as President.
Johnson was returned to his ranch in Stonewall and was buried in the family cemetery, just a few yards from the very shack in which he was born. Today, its a national historical park overseen by the U.S. Department of the Interior.