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Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta Taylor famously known as Lady Bird Johnson was the First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Her husband Lyndon B. Johnson was the thirty sixth President of the United States. She was an environmentalist and actively participated in several projects to beautify Washington, D.C., other cities and national highways. She was a well educated lady of her time and an able manager and investor. She tactfully utilized a moderate inheritance during the congressional campaign of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson. She managed her husband’s office while he enlisted in the navy during the Second World War. Lady Bird Johnson owned a radio station and a TV station which ran successfully helping the Johnsons become millionaires. As a First Lady, she made cutting-edge moves including recruiting her press secretary, employing staff exclusively in the East wing to work on projects of First Lady, communicating directly with the Congress and touring alone for electioneering. She received two of the highest civilian honours of the United States - the ‘Congressional Gold Medal’ and the ‘Presidential Gold Medal’. Her book, ‘A White House Diary’ contains record of her activities as the First Lady.
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Born
December 22, 1912
Birth Place
Karnack, Texas, U.S.
Nationality
American
Sun Sign
Sagittarius
Also Known As
Claudia Alta Lady Bird Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor
Famous As
First Lady of the United States
Died At Age
94
Place Of Death
West Lake Hills
Height
1.68 m
Education
1934 - University of Texas at Austin, 1928-05 - Marshall High School, University of Alabama, 1933 - University of Texas at Austin
Political Ideology
Democratic_Party_(United_States)
Founder/Co-Founder
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, National Park Foundation
Father
Thomas Jefferson Taylor
Mother
Minnie Lee Pattillo
Spouse(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Siblings
Antonio Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Taylor Jr.
Children
Luci Baines Johnson, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
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Austin, TXAustin 360

New book and podcast recast Lady Bird Johnson as political, policy partner of LBJ

To a great extent, Texans admired Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson with no strings attached, not just while her husband, Lyndon Baines Johnson, served as congressman, senator, vice president and president. For more than three decades after LBJ’s death, on Jan. 22, 1973, she continued to enlarge her philanthropic leadership; she founded new initiatives, such as the Lady Bird Johnson National Wildflower Center; and she nurtured a family who carried on her singular style of quiet, charming, determined and effective influence.
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Delving deep into the legacy of Lady Bird Johnson

Do we really need a 500-plus page tome on Lady Bird Johnson?. Given (sweeping gesture here) everything else we’ve got going on in 2021? In a year that has already delivered an insurrection, an impeachment and an ongoing pandemic, is digesting 27 chapters on a faded first lady from the 1960s a good use of our time?
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Lady Bird Johnson Was a Falcon of a First Lady

Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. Lady Bird Johnson always fit the mold of a certain old-fashioned, stereotypical presidential wife: self-effacing, devoted to her generally unfaithful and domineering husband, not particularly chic, and, being a traditional first lady one who needed a public cause, and found hers in planting lots of flowers near highways. They called it at the time, with just a hint of disparagement, “beautification.” Nowhere in the hundreds of thousands of pages written by presidential historians on Lyndon Baines Johnson has there been presented much evidence to the contrary.
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Austin, TXPosted by
Texas Observer

Lady Bird Johnson Was About More Than Wildflowers

Nearly 14 years after her death, Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson’s legacy, to most who know anything about her at all, has been boiled down to wildflowers alongside Texas highways. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig makes the convincing case that Johnson’s role in history is far more complex, interesting, and significant, even central to many of the events of the 1960s that continue to shape our culture and politics.
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TexasHighways

A New Biography Portrays Lady Bird Johnson as Much More Than Just a Flower Girl

After a year of the ongoing pandemic and, more recently, the Great Texas Freeze, all Texans will welcome the colorful blooms of this wildflower season. Fittingly, an expansive biography about our state’s first lady of wildflowers, Lady Bird Johnson, is being published this month: Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig, a nonresident senior research fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. The book arrives in conjunction with a new podcast by Sweig titled In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson. Together, these works cast Lady Bird in a different spotlight as “a canny political operator, an activist, and a woman who figured out how to navigate that company town [Washington, D.C.].”
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CBS News

Lady Bird Johnson, first lady and diarist

In 1993 Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, welcomed "Sunday Morning"'s Charles Kuralt to the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas, where they talked about the former first lady's legacy. "When you come right down to it," Kuralt asked, "it's a good deal of trouble to plant wildflowers...
CelebritiesNY Daily News

Lady Bird Johnson soared as quiet, determined First Lady

First Lady of the United States is one of the most visible, yet least defined, jobs. It is also one of the trickiest to maneuver; a true damned-if-you-do-too-much, damned-if-you-don’t. In the exhaustively researched “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight” by Julia Sweig, we learn just how much Lady Bird...
CelebritiesVanity Fair

“I Think It’s More Important What’s Inside the Head Than What’s Outside”: The Story of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lady Bird Johnson

An excerpt from Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight pulls back the curtain on their complex relationship. Sharing their physical space—­that’s how it all started. After a brief and difficult return to Texas following the convention, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson flew to Cape Cod to the home of John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, so that the Democratic hopefuls might plan the fall 1960 campaign against the Nixon-­Lodge ticket. The night the Johnsons arrived, the Kennedys cleared out their bedroom closets and drawers, leaving, as Jackie later recounted in an oral history interview with Joe B. Frantz, “no trace of anybody’s toothbrush anywhere,” and slept in a single bed in a tiny guest room, so that the Johnsons wouldn’t know they were sleeping in the Kennedys’ bedroom or otherwise feel they had imposed upon them. With the Johnsons’ arrival at 11 p.m., lobster, Bird’s favorite, was offered though declined: too late in the evening for such a rich meal.