Lady Bird Johnson passes

[chillyboi]

Sad
i liked her

 

[gmoney]

She became an icon. She will be missed.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

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it's sad she died but can it undo the mess her husband did in vietnam.

i think not

 

[dw8038r2]

Interestingly, with her passing the Johnson ranch in Texas will be truly open to the public. Right now the only access is by bus tour, and the home itself in off limits due to her Secret Service protection. Lady Bird seems to have been a good woman--think of her when you enjoy the bluebonnets along the Texas highways.

 

[thewiz]

Having moved to Washington two years ago, I have come to respect Lady Bird much more than when I was younger. The flowers that are so abundant across Washington were largely planted by her efforts. The trees that now line all of the streets and, in particular, the cherry blossums and other flowering ones, are due to her "beautification" goals.

As I drive and travel around the country, I wish her goals of eliminating so much of the roadside blight (billboards) would have been more aggressively embraced....

She was a lady and certainly was the better half of that relationship!

 

[Eagle653]

She was a giant in the area of conservation and beautification of America's highways. She was also a shrewd business woman who rebuilt several failing Texas radio stations into a multi-million dollar communications system.

She had enormous shoes to fill, with no training or preparation, following Jacqueline Kennedy into the White House. Yet, she rose to the occasion and never tried to compete with the Kennedy mystique. Instead, she did her own thing and America loved her for it.

Her passing is another end of an era.

 

[star-warrior]

I don't even know the old bird, but she sounds like a bit of alright.

 

[Nonimus]

Oh thank fuck for that - I thought it was another congrats thread.

 

[Croynan]

What a Grand Lady She Was. Her Passing Does Indeed Mark the End of an Era.


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[Croynan]

The New York Times


July 12, 2007

Lady Bird Johnson, 94, Dies; Eased a Path to Power

By ENID NEMY

Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was once described by her husband as “the brains and money of this family” and whose business skills cushioned his road to the White House, died yesterday afternoon at her home in Austin, Tex. She was 94.

Mrs. Johnson was hospitalized for a week last month with a low-grade fever. She died of natural causes, surrounded by family, including her two daughters, and friends, said a family spokeswoman, Elizabeth Christian.

Mrs. Johnson was a calm and steadying influence on her often moody and volatile husband as she quietly attended to the demands imposed by his career. Liz Carpenter, her press secretary during her years in the White House, once wrote that “if President Johnson was the long arm, Lady Bird Johnson was the gentle hand.”

She softened hurts, mediated quarrels and won over many political opponents. Johnson often said his political ascent would have been inconceivable without his wife’s devotion and forbearance. Others shared that belief.

After Johnson became the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1960, James Reston, the Washington columnist of The New York Times, said, “Lyndon could never have made it this far without the help of that woman.”

Mrs. Johnson was often compared to Eleanor Roosevelt, a first lady she greatly admired but did not emulate.

“Mrs. Roosevelt was an instigator, an innovator, willing to air a cause without her husband’s endorsement,” Ms. Carpenter said. “Mrs. Johnson was an implementer and translator of her husband and his purpose — a wife in capital letters.”

Mrs. Johnson had one major cause during the Johnson presidency, highway beautification, and her husband pushed Congress into passing legislation to further the program.

]Mrs. Johnson made many trips to explain her husband’s programs like Head Start, the Job Corps and the War on Poverty. But, Ms. Carpenter said, she “never hesitated to admit that during the early years of their marriage, her husband expected coffee and newspapers in bed and his shoes shined and that she was happy to comply.”

Bonnie Angelo, a reporter who covered Mrs. Johnson for Time magazine, said, “She took a lot from him, but she always said, ‘Lyndon is larger than life,’ and she took him with equanimity. She was the eye of the hurricane, the calm center of the maelstrom that was Lyndon Johnson.”

Mrs. Johnson developed her own public projects. She was an early supporter of the environment and, in championing highway beautification, worked to banish billboards and plant flowers and trees.

The Lady Bird Johnson Park in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, is an outgrowth of her First Lady’s Committee for a More Beautiful Capital. She founded the $10 million National Wildflower Research Center in Austin, Tex., which opened in April 1995 and changed its name to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in 1998. The center conducts research and provides information on plants, landscaping and conservation.

Mrs. Johnson was known for her even temper, although she did not always consider it an asset. “I think it might be better to blow up sometimes,” she once said.

She was a stoic, rarely admitting pain, a trait her husband characterized as perhaps her only fault. She had four miscarriages but never indulged in self-pity.

Mrs. Johnson financed her husband’s first campaign for Congress in 1937 with a $10,000 loan against a small inheritance from her mother. She began taking an active role in politics in 1941, after he lost his first bid for the Senate and returned to the House. While he was on active duty in the Navy during World War II, Mrs. Johnson managed his legislative office. From that point she shared his public life, representing him, speaking for him and answering questions with unusual candor.

When Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, rather than his rival Johnson, was nominated for the presidency in 1960, a reporter asked if she was disappointed. “I’m relieved,” she said, then immediately confessed: “That isn’t true. I’m terribly disappointed. Lyndon would have made a noble president.”

Although Mrs. Johnson was less than enthusiastic when her husband accepted the nomination for vice president, she campaigned tirelessly and accompanied the women of the Kennedy family on many of their appearances, particularly in the South.

Once the election was won, she threw herself into the role of second lady, traveling to 33 countries in the 34 months of Johnson’s vice presidency. She also made 47 trips in the United States in that time, attending social and political gatherings and promoting her husband’s programs and her environmental interests.

“My role,” Mrs. Johnson said, “was to be an extra pair of eyes and ears for Lyndon.”

She also substituted for the first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, on many occasions.

Johnson openly expressed affection for his wife. He often planted a quick kiss on her forehead and held her hand when they were being driven somewhere. In public, Mrs. Johnson referred to her husband as Lyndon; when they were alone or with friends, he was Darling. She was always Bird.

She was with her husband in the motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Later that afternoon, she was beside Johnson in the executive suite of Air Force One as he took the oath of office as 36th president. It was she who suggested to Mrs. Kennedy that she remain in the White House to wind up her affairs.

“I wish to heaven I could serve Mrs. Kennedy’s happiness,” she said. “I can at least serve her convenience.”

Mrs. Johnson took up residence in the White House on Dec. 7, 1963, feeling, she said, “as if I am suddenly on stage for a part I never rehearsed.” She converted a small corner room overlooking the Washington Monument into an office and set aside an hour a day to record her life as first lady. She wrote about 1.7 million words in her years in the White House; 800 pages of them were published in 1971 as “A White House Diary.”

It was only then that she publicly acknowledged that it was not until Mrs. Kennedy’s remarriage in 1968, to Aristotle Onassis, that she felt liberated from the former first lady’s presence and influence. “I feel strangely free,” Mrs. Johnson wrote. “No shadow walks beside me down the hall of the White House.”

Although she had attended many state dinners in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Mrs. Johnson made no effort to copy the style of previous first ladies. Her first state dinner, for the president of Italy and his wife, combined Italian opera and American hootenanny.

The Johnsons enjoyed entertaining official guests at the L.B.J. Ranch in Stonewall, Tex. Their Texas background inspired the menus and entertainment for many White House events. The South Lawn, which the president referred to as the backyard, became a setting for barbecues.

Mrs. Johnson’s Texas heritage was often evident in her speech. “I’ll see you next week if the Lord be willing and the creek don’t rise” was one expression. Her description of someone who acted without thinking was “the type who would charge hell with a bucket of water.”

Johnson won election to a full term as president in 1964 with a lopsided majority. But as his term neared its end, he was the beleaguered and increasingly unpopular leader of a country divided over Vietnam. The war came to overshadow the legislation he had pushed through — strong measures on civil rights, Medicare, urban development, federal aid for schools, the Head Start program and the War on Poverty.

The president held to the conviction, however, that continuing the war was a course both honorable and in the national interest. Yet as the war grew more and more unpopular, so did the president. On March 31, 1968, he surprised the nation by announcing that he would not seek re-election.

Almost exactly a year earlier, Mrs. Johnson wrote in her diary: “I do not know whether we can endure another four-year term in the presidency. I use the word ‘endure’ in Webster’s own meaning, ‘to last, remain, continue in the same state without perishing.’ I face the prospect of another campaign like an open-end stay in a concentration camp.”

Mrs. Johnson came to Washington in 1934 as the 21-year-old bride of Lyndon Johnson, then an assistant to a Texas congressman. By the time he became president, Mrs. Johnson had acquired more than a quarter century of experience in national politics, covering his 12 years in the House, 12 years in the Senate — 6 of them as majority leader — and almost 3 years as vice president.

She also became a successful businesswoman in those years, using the final $21,000 of her $67,000 inheritance in 1942 to buy KTBC, a small radio station in Austin.

Although the station was bought in Mrs. Johnson’s name, her husband’s political influence, even though limited at the time, helped in acquiring the license from the Federal Communications Commission. Johnson became the commission’s champion at a time when Congress was about to cut its budget. Mrs. Johnson’s application was speedily approved.

KTBC had no nighttime franchise and no network connection, and it owed money to several banks. Mrs. Johnson went to Austin and reviewed the debts, the accounts receivable and the staff and made changes. Seven months later, the station showed its first monthly profit, $18.

Within 20 years, the station and the affiliates bought with its profits became a multimillion-dollar radio and television enterprise. At one time, the Johnson interests included KTBC Television, which was sold to Times Mirror in 1973, Austin cable interests, which were sold to Time Warner Cable, and Karnack Cable System, cable interests outside Austin, which were sold to Tele-Communications.

Both Johnson daughters were born in Washington, Lynda Bird Johnson in 1944 and Luci Baines Johnson in 1947, and both had weddings while their father was in the White House. Lynda Bird is the wife of former Senator Charles S. Robb of Virginia; Luci Baines, divorced and remarried, lives in Austin, where her husband, Ian Turpin, is president of the Johnson family business, the LBJ Company, which owns KLBJ, an Austin radio station, and has land interests in Texas. Mrs. Johnson and her younger daughter owned the company, having bought Mrs. Robb’s share some years earlier.

Mrs. Johnson’s survivors include her two daughters, seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Johnson was born Claudia Alta Taylor on Dec. 22, 1912 in a big red brick house in the East Texas town of Karnack (population 100). The youngest of three children and the only girl, she acquired the name Lady Bird as a toddler after a nursemaid described her as “purty as a lady bird.”

“I was a baby and in no position to protest,” Mrs. Johnson said of her nickname.

Her father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, was the prosperous owner of two country stores and a cotton gin. But Mrs. Johnson recalled using an oil lamp until she was 9 and never forgot the big day “when we finally got inside plumbing.” Her mother, Minnie Patillo, of Alabama, surprised her neighbors by listening to opera, reading voraciously and campaigning for women’s right to vote.

When Mrs. Johnson was 5, her mother died, and an unmarried maternal aunt, Effie Patillo, moved from Alabama to live with the Taylors and help rear the children.

Mrs. Johnson’s education began in a one-room school with a stove in the middle of the room for which, she recalled, “the big boys always brought in the wood.” She graduated from Marshall High School at 15 and enrolled in St. Mary’s School for Girls, an Episcopal junior college in Dallas. Its influence led her to change her church affiliation to Episcopalian from Methodist. She went on to the University of Texas, graduating in 1933, and returned for another year to major in journalism.

Her whirlwind romance with Lyndon Johnson began in the autumn of 1934 in the office of a friend in Austin. They met for breakfast the next morning. After pouring out his life history, financial status, how much insurance he carried and his prospects, Johnson asked her to marry him. When she reported the first-date proposal to her father, he showed no astonishment. “Some of the best bargains are made in a hurry,” he said.

It took a few more tries before Johnson’s persistence was rewarded.

“He was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I’d ever encountered,” Mrs. Johnson said of her suitor years later. “I knew I’d met something remarkable, but I didn’t know quite what.”

They were married on Nov. 17, 1934, two months after they met, in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. The groom forgot the ring, and the best man was sent across the street to buy one at a Sears, Roebuck store for $2.98.

The couple moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Washington. Johnson’s salary, as administrative assistant to Representative Richard M. Kleberg, Democrat of Texas, was $267 a month. The next year they returned to Texas, where Johnson became administrator of the Texas National Youth Administration. But politics had cast its spell. Johnson ran for the House and won, and the couple returned to Washington in 1937.

The Johnsons returned to the L.B.J. Ranch, a 438-acre spread on the Pedernales River in central Texas, in 1969. The ranch, bought in 1951 from Johnson’s aunt for $20,000, originally consisted of 245 acres of Texas hill country and a dilapidated house that Mrs. Johnson once said “looked like a haunted house in a Charles Addams cartoon.” It was soon rehabilitated.

On their return to Texas, President and Mrs. Johnson helped establish the eight-story Lyndon Baines Johnson Library on the campus of the University of Texas. It opened in 1971. Less than two years later, on Jan. 22, 1973, Johnson died of a heart attack. He is buried in the family graveyard on the ranch.

In the succeeding decades, Mrs. Johnson lived in Austin and spent weekends at the ranch, though the Johnsons had donated it to the nation in 1972 as a National Historic Site. She oversaw the landscaping of the 15-acre L.B.J. Memorial Grove across the Potomac River from Washington. She campaigned for Mr. Robb as he moved up the political ladder. She was a member of the University of Texas Board of Regents, the National Parks Advisory Board and the Highway Beautification Board. And she was awarded a Medal of Freedom by President Gerald R. Ford in 1977 and a Congressional Gold Medal in 1988.

Although she suffered a mild stroke in 1993 and in her mid-80’s was declared legally blind, she remained active in the Wildflower Center and at the L.B.J. Library.

A private family eucharist will be held at the Wildflower Center on Friday, after which Mrs. Johnson will lie in repose at the library for public viewing. On Saturday, a funeral service open by invitation only will be held at Riverbend Centre in Austin. A public funeral cortege on Sunday morning will take her to the Johnson family cemetery at Stonewall, Tex., but the graveside service that afternoon will be private.

“It has been a wonderful life,” she told Ms. Carpenter in 1992. “I feel like a jug into which wine is poured until it overflows.”

 

[Fourseasons]

I will miss Lady Bird Johnson and will always be thankful for the beautifcation program of flowering plants in Washington, DC that I was part of in the summer of 1964 when I worked for the Dept. of Interior and took thousands of azalea cuttings for this program. I feel very proud to have been part of this marvelous program and enjoy it to this day when I often visit downtown Washington, DC.

 

[cocktales]

Lady Bird led a FULL life and truly will be remembered for her beautification efforts; NOT only across the U.S.; but specifically for Washington, D.C.!!!


Taken from her Biography:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Ugliness is so grim," Lady Bird Johnson once said. "A little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help create harmony which will lessen tensions." [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]That belief -- that beauty can improve the mental health of a society -- and her determination to make the United States a more beautiful place became Lady Bird's true legacy. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Throughout her time in the White House, she fought to make American cities more beautiful by planting flowers or adding park benches and by removing billboards and junkyards from the nation's highways. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird's efforts in these areas pushed her further into the political arena that any First Lady before her. Even Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird's declared role model, had not sat in on a legislative strategy session or been given assignments to influence Congressional votes. Lyndon Johnson, however, supported Lady Bird's efforts and they appeared to be his own, promoting her projects in his State of the Union speeches or during Cabinet meetings.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird herself saw her conservation and beautification work as deeply interwoven with President Johnson's Great Society agenda. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Getting on the subject of beautification is like picking up a tangled skein of wool," she wrote in her diary on January 27, 1965. "All the threads are interwoven -- recreation and pollution and mental health, and the crime rate, and rapid transit, and highway beautification, and the war on poverty, and parks -- national, state and local. It is hard to hitch the conversation into one straight line, because everything leads to something else."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird focused much of her efforts on cleaning up Washington, DC, believing that beautifying the dilapidated capital city could become an example to other cities across the country. The District had long been crumbling as poverty and racial tensions ate away at its neighborhoods and Lady Bird believed such improvements could only help the population. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In February 1965, Lady Bird sent out an invitation to possible donors and activists to attend a White House meeting to "stimulate new interest in making our city truly beautiful for the people who live here and come here."

Volunteers and staff members of the Society for a More Beautiful National Capital quickly divided into two camps over how to approach such a project. Some believed that money should be channeled towards high traffic areas and places where tourists spent the most time. Others insisted that Washington's inner cities needed the resources for playgrounds and general infrastructure. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird supported the two camps and allowed them to operate separately. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"My criteria for the project are that it receive the fullest use, that it can be maintained easily, and that the desire emanate from the neighborhood and its people," she said.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Many philanthropists earmarked their donations with specific locations in mind. One active member, Mary Lasker, focused her efforts on the beautification of downtown and tourist areas with the donation of thousands of dollars and trees and plants. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"In a nutshell, her program is, 'masses of flowers where masses pass.' Water, lights and color-mass of flowers-those things spell beautification to her," Lady Bird wrote in her diary after a meeting. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Walter Washington, on the other hand, was another active participant who focused on Washington's inner city. He was the executive director of the National Capital Housing Authority, and was later elected mayor during Johnson's term. He described one of his programs as "an attempt to motivate the children, youths, adults and family units in a long-range program of self-involvement for enhancing the physical appearance of the community." [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]He also rallied children in junior high schools and elementary schools to "clean-up, fix-up, paint-up and plant-up." [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird also wanted to "make a showcase of beauty on the Mall, which would be used by the American people, instead of just looked at. Take the small triangles and squares with which Washington abounds, now quite barren except for a dispirited sprig of grass, and maybe a tottering bench, and put shrubs and flowers in them, through the volunteer help of neighborhood associations or business firms (it would take some cutting of red tape to do that); perhaps have a volunteer committee of landscape architects to draw up plans, so that we can have continuity and good taste and a wise choice of plants."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Washington indeed gained hundreds of landscaped parks and planted thousands of daffodils, azaleas and dogwood trees during Lady Bird's tenure that endure to this day. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird also saw her beautification projects as helping soothe the nation at a time when the Vietnam war, civil rights and other highly charged political topics fomented division. Lady Bird believed that a cleaner, more beautiful country could calm people and bring them together. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Taking Her Mission Nationwide[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird and her husband had driven many times from their home in Texas to Washington, DC, and had been frustrated by the increasing number of junkyards and billboards along the way. In his State of the Union address in 1965, President Johnson addressed the issue by saying "a new and substantial effort must be made to landscape highways to provide places of relaxation and recreation wherever our roads run."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The interstate highway system was built largely during the Eisenhower administration, and the billboard industry had been booming ever since. In 1958, Congress had passed a highway bill that gave states an extra half percent in funding if they controlled billboards, but the incentive appeared ineffectual in stopping highways from being blanketed with billboards. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Bird wanted the highways clear of billboards and junkyards, and filled with green landscaping and wildflowers. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Public feeling is going to bring about regulation," she told reporters, "so you don't have a solid diet of billboards on all the roads."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The power of the billboard industry, however, was a tough match for the White House and the battle to pass the Highway Beautification Act was fierce.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]President Johnson told his cabinet and staff members "You know I love that woman and she wants that Highway Beautification Act" he said, when it looked as if the bill might not pass, and "by God, we're going to get it for her," he said.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The eventual bill was a compromise between the White House and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. It stated that billboards would be banned "except in those areas of commercial and industrial use." Further pressure from the industry caused an additional amendment that required the government to provide "just compensation" to owners for losing their billboards. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Critics said the bill was so watered down by the time it passed that it did more harm than good to the landscape. The legislation, however, was considered a victory for the Johnson team and for the Lady Bird's beautification efforts.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In one of her last meetings with the Society for a More Beautiful National Capital, Lady Bird talked of the accomplishments. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Over the past three years, the people in this room have produced nearly two and a half million dollars to take steps toward making this nation's capital more livable and more beautiful. Not only is your handiwork enjoyed by the three million people who live and work in this city, it can be seen also by seventeen million visitors who come here each year, and our work has inspired other cities across the country," she told the group. "This has been one of the most lovely springs I can remember in Washington's history. It has also been one of the most poignant and grave. That fact underscores the urgency of improving our environment for all people."[/FONT]

As you can see, Ms Johnson was NOT the "retiring-wife-of-the-president" who sat around and had tea parties!

Indeed, Lady Bird was the FIRST, First Lady to actively travel around and speak/seek-out votes for her husband's election!

Ms Johnson (Lady Bird) had a full-life; but will truly be missed by us ALL!

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Production of Lady Bird had been funded in part by the generous support of The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston; The Belo Foundation; The Marian and Speros Martel Foundation, Inc.[/SIZE][/FONT]

 

[hubbellgardner]

Oh thank fuck for that - I thought it was another congrats thread.

who's a naughty boy, then