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…showed last 75 words of 628 total…that he would not be running for a second term. Before leaving office he called for a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam as a gesture for peace. The response of North Vietnam began with peace talks in Paris later that week. After the election of Richard Nixon Johnson returned to his ranch in Texas to begin writing his Presidential memoirs. Johnson died in 1973 and was buried at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas.