This is what happened to President Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch early last month. ... man can live without his gall bladder. Thus surgery to remove the offending organ ...

THE PRESIDENCY The clock read 6:15 a.m. when the patient was wheeled into the operating suite. A team of ten masked, green-gowned doctors made final preparations. By 6:50 a.m., the patient was ...

Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) is resting comfortably following gallbladder surgery Tuesday morning. Doctors at Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls originally thought a ...

Andrew Johnson solemnly assured a campaign rally that he was not Judas Iscariot. Lyndon B. Johnson lifted his shirt to show reporters his gallbladder-surgery scar.

Lyndon B. Johnson had spiraled into depression, and from his hospital bed after gallbladder surgery, he talked of throwing it all away and retreating into seclusion back home in Texas.