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2 .TIN--THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS HAVE COME -TO AUSTIN TO LOOK UPON THE CLOSED, FLAG-DRAPED CASKET OF LYNDON B. JOHNSON, THE NATION'S 36TH PRESIDENT. THE JOHNSON FAMILY STOOD AT THE CASKET YESTERDAY AND SHOOK HANDS WITH THE MOURNERS AND THANKED THEM FOR COMING UNTIL ABOUT 9 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT BEFORE MAKING THE 65-MILE TRIP BACK TO THE L-B-J RANCH. THE 64-YEAR-OLD JOHNSON DIED MONDAY OF A SEVERE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. HIS BODY IS TO BE FLOWN ON AIR FORCE ONE TO WASHINGTON EARLY TODAY FOR FUNERAL SERVICES AND LAST ACCOLADES AND HONORS FROM THE CAPITOL CITY HE ONCE RULED AND LOVED. THE BODY WILL BE CARRIED L' ",Y CA SSON TO THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA AND WILL LIE IN STATE UNTIL RING . PRESIDENT NIXON HAS DECLARED t iSDAY AS A NATIONAL DAY OF. MOURNING, AND HAS CALLED ON- THE NATION TO ASSEMBLE THAT DAY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PLACES OF WORSHIP TO HONOR JOHNSON'S MEMORY. IN ANNOUNCING PEACE IN VIETNAM LAST NIGHT, NIXON SAID OF JOHNSON, "THERE WAS NOTHING HE CARED ABOUT MORE DEEPLY THAN ACHIEVING A LASTING PEACE IN THE WORLD. 05:31ACS u1-24-73