Lestat, the vampire narrator of Anne Rice's most recent book, Blood Canticle, begins the novel with a harangue against its readers.
Lyndon Johnson died in 1973, four years after the Johnsons left the White House. The longest-living first lady in history was Bess Truman, who was 97 when she died in 1982. Johnson was born Claudia Alta Taylor in 1912. A nurse called her Lady Bird, a nickname she hated, but it stuck, reports CBS News' Harry Smith. The daughter of a Texas businessman, Johnson grew up to be one of the country's most influential environmentalists.
Johnson was impeached on February 24, 1868, in the U.S. House of Representatives on eleven articles of impeachment detailing his  high crimes and misdemeanors , in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution.