“Eisenhower Dead at 78 As Ailing Heart Fails”—New York Times today 1969: pic.twitter.com/pMmZYEQLhX— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 29, 2018
Actually, President Eisenhower died on March 28; the New York Times issue with the story, shown above, was published on the 29th.
Back in December, 2014, I wrote a post that included this, about the death of presidents:
I'm interested in presidential history, and the death of any president is a milestone in our country; a time for grief and reflection, and it doesn't happen that often.
In the last 70 years, two presidents have died in office: FDR on April 12, 1945, followed by JFK on November 22, 1963. Prior to 1945, the last president to die was Calvin Coolidge, in January, 1933. After Roosevelt and Kennedy, there have been seven additional presidential deaths:
October 20, 1964: Herbert Hoover
March 28, 1969: Dwight Eisenhower
December 26, 1972: Harry Truman
January 22, 1973: Lyndon Johnson
April 22, 1994: Richard Nixon
June 5, 2004: Ronald Reagan
December 26, 2006: Gerald Ford
Read the entire post here.
Our two oldest living former presidents are both 93. George HW Bush turns 94 on June 12; Jimmy Carter hits that milestone on October 1. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are both 71 and Barack Obama is 56. The current president is 71, turning 72 in June.
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