Henry McPherson Jr. | An LBJ adviser, 82

Henry McPherson Jr., 82, who was an adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Thursday. He had cancer.

Mr. McPherson served as special assistant and special counsel to Johnson. He influenced the president on a range of policies from civil rights to bombing in Vietnam. He helped write Johnson's 1968 speech announcing a halt to bombing in Vietnam and that Johnson would not run for reelection.

After working for Johnson, Mr. McPherson worked as a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington. He wrote a 1972 memoir, A Political Education, recalling his experience in government and the Johnson presidency.

- AP