...As long as wildflowers bloom Lady Bird will live
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In honor of Mrs. Johnson's 100th birthday, celebrations have been planned through out the year. Take a look and see if there are happenings in your area.
About Lady Bird Johnson
Devoted wife of the 36th President, CEO of a broadcasting empire, loving mother, canny investor, environmentalist and revered first lady, the woman who became known as Lady Bird Johnson walked the crowded corridors of power with grace and uncommon courage. Her warmth, graciousness and Southern courtesy helped her beloved husband, Lyndon Baines Johnson, negotiate a difficult path as president after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. When he ran for re-election in 1964, it was Mrs. Johnson who tackled an angry South on a whistle-stop train tour, enduring hate and scorn from those who could not forgive him for signing the Civil Rights Act.
She would say later that her joy and her solace came from her connection to nature, and that her life’s work sprang from a hope that future generations could experience nature’s beauty as she had.
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