. >> lindl lyndon johnson was 64 e died. how sick was he, and how did he know -- i do remember -- well, i remember the speech and we weren't in business until a year later, so we didn't televise it. was that televised at the time? >> yeah, that was a house camera that they had, you know, it was one of the robotic cameras, kind of rigid, but it was inside the house, yeah. >> how sick was he? >> well, he died two months later and he had cancer four or five years, and he was sick. he had the remarkable spirit and one of the things i wanted to capture in the film. he didn't take tylenol until the end. he wanted to live through his death and the whole process and he just kept this attitude up and he was in pain all the time and no one knew it. he was amazing. amazing spirit. one thing i should tell you about the funeral that's interesting that i couldn't really get into the film. richard nixon since watergate had been out of washington had not been back. humphrey called him on christmas and said you're coming back to washington f