Doom Dogs

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Thanks to Greg for this bit o trivia. 

Yuki


Yuki was a mixed breed dog found by President Johnson's daughter, Luci, at a gas station in Texas on Thanksgiving Day 1966, while on her way to the LBJ Ranch. Luci named him Yuki, which means snow in Japanese. At first, Yuki lived with Luci, but he eventually won LBJ's heart and became his faithful companion.
[img=374x0]https://lbj-prod-staticfiles-4pgcba8v8q69.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/artifact_horizontal/s3/artifacts/images/2018-08/D4717-12a_09181972.jpg?AWM3tUWiOr2SQobzvqghluCAgNWf0x0b[/img]LBJ riding in a Lincoln convertible with his dog, Yuki, sitting in the back.
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On Aug. 27, 1967, LBJ's birthday, Luci told her father that he could keep Yuki. He was often by LBJ's side, seen at meetings in the Oval Office and bill signings to trips abroad and domestically. When LBJ left office on Jan. 20, 1969, Yuki returned to the LBJ ranch with the Johnson family.
[img=374x0]https://lbj-prod-staticfiles-4pgcba8v8q69.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/artifact_vertical/s3/artifacts/images/2018-08/a5370-25a_med.jpg?KNoxOM4UvEq9rCKAe3pgaEhJiTUkBCEO[/img]President Johnson sings with his dog, Yuki, while his grandson, Patrick Lyndon Nugent, looks on.
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[img=374x0]https://lbj-prod-staticfiles-4pgcba8v8q69.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/artifact_vertical/s3/artifacts/images/2018-08/D1493-15_08271968.jpg?y_HITzS_TCcCEDdtcPq4CVeZScB2zQ7M[/img]President Johnson, while holding his dog, Yuki, sits in the LBJ ranch pool reading a memo. His grandson, Patrick Lyndon Nugent, is beside him.
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After LBJ passed in January 1973, Yuki went to live with Luci. He died sometime in 1979.
According to Luci, one morning they looked for Yuki in her backyard and could not find him. They searched for days and were never able to locate him. The family's veterinarian told them that sometimes elderly dogs will wander off in their last days. Luci suspects "the greatest light in his life left with my father and he just went looking for him."