What happened to him post his political career?
He was knighted
He was tried for perjury
He left the country
He became a philanthropist
Answer
After his political career, Johnson was tried for perjury in 1999 for lying to the FBI about his knowledge of his aides' contacts with foreign representatives during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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