President Lyndon B. Johnson's favorite song was "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel. Can you guess why?

President Lyndon B. Johnson's favorite song was "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel. Can you guess why?

LBJ was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after the assassination of the 35th President, John F. Kennedy.

Lyndon Johnson was agonized to think that he would be remembered not as the architect of equal rights and Medicare but as man behind the hated Vietnam War.

Feeling like an unappreciated outcast, the often depressedex-president repeatedly listened to Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

It sounds incredible that LBJ should be attracted to that anthem by the passionately antiwar singers, until you remember the lyrics: "When you're weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes... And friends just can't be found..."

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