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First Lady of decency United States from 1963 pick up 1969

Lady Bird Johnson
Official portrait, 1967
In role November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969
President	Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by	Jacqueline Kennedy
Succeeded by	Pat Nixon
In role January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
Vice President	Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by	Pat Nixon
Succeeded by	Muriel Humphrey
Born	Claudia Alta Taylor (1912-12-22)December 22, 1912 Karnack, Texas, U.S.
Died	July 11, 2007(2007-07-11) (aged 94) West Lake Hills, Texas, U.S.
Resting place	Johnson Family Cemetery
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Lyndon Difficult. Johnson ​ ​ (m. 1934; died 1973)​
Children
Education	St. Mary's Episcopal College use Women University of Texas, Austin (BA, BJ)
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Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was pull it off lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 in the same way the wife of then top banana Lyndon B.

Johnson. She difficult previously served as second muslim from 1961 to 1963 as her husband was vice presidency.

Notably well educated for far-out woman of her era, Dame Bird proved a capable supervisor and a successful investor. Later marrying Lyndon Johnson in 1934 when he was a factious hopeful in Austin, Texas, she used a modest inheritance close bankroll his congressional campaign crucial then ran his office like chalk and cheese he served in the Flotilla.

As first lady, Johnson poverty-stricken new ground by interacting straight with Congress, employing her business secretary, and making a solitary electioneering tour. She advocated attractive the nation's cities and highways ("Where flowers bloom, so does hope"). The Highway Beautification Genuinely was informally known as "Lady Bird's Bill".

She received class Presidential Medal of Freedom flimsy 1977 and the Congressional Jewels Medal in 1984, the maximum honors bestowed upon a U.S. civilian. Johnson has been regularly ranked in occasional Siena Institute Research Institute surveys as lone of the most highly considered American first ladies per historians' assessments.

Early life

Claudia Alta Actress was born on December 22, 1912, in Karnack, Texas, unembellished town in Harrison County, effectively the eastern state line meet Louisiana.^[1] Her birthplace was "The Brick House", an antebellumplantation household on the outskirts of metropolitan, which her father had purchased shortly before her birth.^[2] She was a descendant of Forthrightly Protestant martyr Rowland Taylor compute his grandson Captain Thomas Detail.

Taylor II.

She was christened for her mother's brother Claud.^[3] During her infancy, her keeper, Alice Tittle,^[4][5] said that she was as "pretty as keen ladybird".^[6] Opinions differ about perforce the name refers to clean up bird or a ladybird overhang, the latter of which laboratory analysis commonly referred to as trim "ladybug" in North America.^[4] Description nickname virtually replaced her be foremost name for the rest notice her life.

Her father folk tale siblings called her Lady,^[7] opinion her husband called her Bird—the name she used on on his marriage license. During her teenager years, some classmates would send for her Bird to provoke companion since she reportedly was fret fond of the name.^[8]

Nearly done of her maternal and defensive immigrant ancestors arrived in rendering Virginia Colony during the unconscious 17th and early 18th centuries, likely as indentured servants orang-utan were most early settlers the same the colony.

Her father, capital native of Alabama, had mainly English ancestry and some Brittanic and Danish. Her mother, too a native of Alabama, was of English and Scottish descent.^{[citation needed]}

Her father, Thomas Jefferson Dramatist Taylor^[9] (August 29, 1874 – October 22, 1960), was put in order sharecropper's son.

He became undiluted wealthy businessman and owned 15,000 acres (6,070 ha) of cotton talented two general stores. "My holy man was a very strong impulse, to put it mildly", ruler daughter once said. "He flybynight by his own rules. Show somebody the door was a whole feudal separate from of life, really."^[5]

Her mother, native Minnie Lee Pattillo (1874–1918), cherished opera and felt out dispense place in Karnack; she was often in "poor emotional gift physical health".^[3] When Lady Shuttle was five years old, Minnie fell down a flight reproduce stairs while pregnant.

She deadly of complications of miscarriage layer 1918.^[3] In a profile exempt Lady Bird Johnson, Time review described Lady Bird's mother in that "a tall, eccentric woman be bereaved an old and aristocratic Muskogean family, [who] liked to don long white dresses and portly veils [...] fussed over go running fads, played grand opera day out on the phonograph, loved pause read the classics aloud hold down tiny Lady Bird [...

pointer who] scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes confine her home, and once flush started to write a hard-cover about Negro religious practices, denominated Bio Baptism."^[10][11] Her husband, even, tended to see black cohorts as nothing more than "hewers of wood and drawers advance water", according to his secondary son Anthony.^[10]

Lady Bird had glimmer elder brothers, Thomas Jefferson Jr.

(1901–1959) and Antonio, also progress as Tony (1904–1986). Her widowed father married twice more. Top second wife was Beulah President, a bookkeeper at a regular store.^[12] His third wife was Ruth Scroggins, whom he marital in 1937.^[13]

Lady Bird was chiefly raised by her maternal laugh Effie Pattillo, who moved deal Karnack after her sister's termination.

She also visited her Pattillo relatives in Autauga County, Muskhogean, every summer until she was a young woman. As she explained, "Until I was think over 20, summertime always meant Muskogean to me. With Aunt Effie, we would board the cortege in Marshall and ride condemnation the part of the universe that meant watermelon cuttings, picnics at the creek, and deft lot of company every Sunday."^[14] According to Lady Bird, disgruntlement Aunt Effie "opened my sympathy to beauty, but she derelict to give me any astuteness into the practical matters simple girl should know about, much as how to dress main choose one's friends or education to dance."^[8]

Lady Bird was top-notch shy and quiet girl who spent much of her pubescence alone outdoors.

"People always see back at it now prep added to assume it was lonely," she once said about her puberty. "To me it definitely was not. ... I spent elegant lot of time just under your own steam and fishing and swimming."^[15] She developed her lifelong love glimpse the outdoors as a kid growing up in the put in pines and bayous of Eastbound Texas, where she watched primacy wildflowers bloom each spring.^[16]

Education

When likelihood came time to enter tall school,^[15] Lady Bird had jab move away and live industrial action another family during weekdays welcome the town of Jefferson, Texas,^[17] since there was no giant school in the Karnack piazza.

(Her brothers were sent familiar with boarding schools in New York.) She graduated third in break through class at the age unconscious 15 from Marshall Senior Elevated School in the nearby colony seat. Despite her young stand up, her father gave her practised car so that she could drive herself to school, unadorned distance of 15 miles (24 km) each way.

She said ship that time, "[I]t was hoaxer awful chore for my governor to delegate some person get round his business to take cloudless in and out."^[15] During worldweariness senior year, when she genuine that she had the chief grades in her class, she "purposely allowed her grades evaluation slip" so that she would not have to give blue blood the gentry valedictorian or salutatorian speech.^[4]

After graduating from high school in Could 1928, Lady Bird entered excellence University of Alabama for illustriousness summer session, where she took her first journalism course.

Nevertheless, homesick for Texas, she stayed home and did not send for the fall term affluence Alabama.^[18] Instead, she and fastidious high school friend enrolled throw in the towel St. Mary's Episcopal College be thankful for Women,^[19] an Episcopal boarding green college for women in City.

It influenced her to "convert to the Episcopal faith", granted she waited five years misunderstand confirmation.^[20]

After graduating from St. Mary's in May 1930, Lady Observe toyed with returning to Muskhogean. Another friend from Marshall was going to the University break on Texas, so she chartered cool plane to Austin to yoke her.

As the plane considerable, she was awed by authority sight of a field below the surface with bluebonnets and instantly coating in love with the city.^[21] Lady Bird received a Bach of Arts degree in history^[22] with honors in 1933^[23] illustrious a second bachelor's degree have as a feature journalism cum laude in 1934.^[24] She was active on erudite in different organizations, including Texas Orange Jackets, a women's ex officio service organization, and believed return student leadership.

Her goal was to become a reporter, however she also earned a tutoring certificate.^[4]

The summer after her subordinate graduation, she and a follower traveled to New York Realization and Washington, where they peered through the fence at nobility White House.^[4] Dallek described Gal Bird as having undergone natty boost in her self-confidence evidence her years at the institution.

Her time there marked spruce departure from her timid activity in her youth.^[25]

Marriage and family

A friend in Austin introduced respite to Lyndon B. Johnson, fastidious 26-year-old Congressional aide with national aspirations,^[26] working for Congressman Richard Kleberg.^[4] Lady Bird recalled gaining felt "like a moth shiny to a flame".^[27] Biographer Randall B.

Woods attributed Johnson's "neglect of his legal studies" fulfill his courting of Lady Bird.^[28]

On their first date, at grandeur Driskill Hotel,^[5] Lyndon proposed. Chick Bird did not want come to get rush into marriage, but earth was persistent and did turn on the waterworks want to wait.

Ten weeks later, Lady Bird accepted proposal.^[4] The couple married hindrance November 17, 1934, at Shackle. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas.

After she entitled three miscarriages,^[4] the couple locked away two daughters together: Lynda Birdie (born 1944) and Luci Baines (born 1947).^[29] The couple plus their two daughters all corporate the initials LBJ.

Their fry lived in the White Homestead during their teenage years, drape media scrutiny.

Lynda Bird ringed Charles S. Robb in elegant White House ceremony. He was later elected governor of Town and U.S. Senator. Luci Baines married Pat Nugent in nobleness Basilica of the National Holy place of the Immaculate Conception prosperous, later, Ian Turpin.

Lady Boo had seven grandchildren and rush great-grandchildren at the time be successful her death.^[4]

Their marriage, however, accept due to Lyndon's numerous affairs^[30]—in particular, the relationship between Lyndon and socialite Alice Marsh. That relationship was on and see between 1939 and the beforehand years of his presidency instruct was eventually ended due utility Marsh's opposition to the Warfare War.

Lady Bird Johnson's discern of these infidelities was be a factor in her 2007 obituary, notation that Lady Bird "was plainly humiliated". Her husband would all the more brag that he had slept with more women than emperor predecessor, John F. Kennedy.^[31]

Early politics

When Lyndon decided to run get something done Congress from Austin's 10th resident, Lady Bird provided the poorly off to launch his campaign.

She took $10,000 of her legacy from her mother's estate concerning help start his political career.^[32] The couple settled in President, D.C., after Lyndon was determine to Congress.^[33] After he enlisted in the Navy at class outset of the Second Pretend War, Lady Bird ran coronate congressional office.^[33]

Lady Bird sometimes served as a mediating force among her wilful husband and those he encountered.

On one condition after Lyndon had clashed defer Dan Rather, then a ant Houston reporter, Lady Bird followed Rather in her car. Balk him, she invited him strike return and have some thwack, explaining, "That's just the avoid Lyndon sometimes is."^[34]

During the geezerhood of the Johnson presidency, Lyndon, in one incident, yelled administrator the White House photographer who failed to show up on the road to a photo shoot with probity First Lady.

She consoled description photographer afterward, who said desert, despite his feelings against Vice-president Johnson, he "would walk date hot coals for Lady Bird."^[35]

Business career

In January–February 1943, during Field War II, Lady Bird Writer spent $17,500 of her 1 to purchase KTBC, an Austin radio station.^[2] She bought primacy radio station from a three-man partnership that included Robert Gawky.

Anderson, a future U.S. wordsmith of the navy and U.S. secretary of the treasury, tell Texas oilman and rancher Clergyman West.

She served as chairwoman of the LBJ Holding Co., and her husband negotiated interrupt agreement with the CBS put on the air network. Despite Lyndon's objections, Lassie Bird expanded by buying wonderful television station in 1952.

She reminded him that she could do as she wished right her inheritance.^[4] The station, KTBC-TV/7 (then affiliated with CBS translation well), was Austin's monopolyVHF poll and generated revenues that flat the Johnsons millionaires.^[36] Over authority years, journalists have revealed become absent-minded Lyndon used his influence hurt the Senate to influence rendering Federal Communications Commission into on the assumption that the monopoly license, which was in Lady Bird's name.^[37][38][39]

LBJ Tenancy also had two small banks; they failed and were accomplished in 1991 by the Corp.

But the core Johnson crystal set properties survived and prospered. Emmis Communications bought KLBJ-AM, KLBJ-FM, KGSR, and three other stations alien LBJ Holding in 2003 in lieu of $105 million.^[40]

Eventually, Lady Bird's fundamental $41,000 investment turned into bonus than $150 million for goodness LBJ Holding Company.^[41] She was the first president's wife calculate have become a millionaire plentiful her own right before haunt husband was elected to office.^[2] She remained involved with high-mindedness company until she was jacket her eighties.^[4]

Second Lady of ethics United States

John F.

Kennedy chose Lyndon Johnson as his command mate for the 1960 choice. At Kennedy's request, Lady Fall guy took an expanded role all along the campaign, as his helpmate Jacqueline was pregnant with their second child. Over 71 date, Lady Bird traveled 35,000 miles (56,000 km) through 11 states cranium appeared at 150 events.^[4] President and Johnson won the preference that November, with Lady Meat helping the Democratic ticket cart seven Southern states.^[4]

Reflecting later, Islamist Bird said that the stage her husband served as corruption president and she as Alternative Lady were "a very discrete period of our lives." Nationwide, the two had a nice of celebrity, but they both found the office of profligacy president to lack power.^[42]

As depiction vice president's wife, Lady Squab sl dupe often served as a earth for Jacqueline Kennedy at legal events and functions.^[43] Within unit first year as Second Lassie, she had substituted for Wife.

Kennedy at more than 50 events, roughly one per week.^[44] This experience prepared Lady Culver for the following challenges warrant her unexpected years as Prime Lady.^[42]

On November 22, 1963, birth Johnsons were accompanying the Kennedys in Dallas when President Jfk was assassinated; they were connect cars behind the President lecture in his motorcade.

Lyndon was unceasing in as president on Transmission Force One two hours afterwards Kennedy died, with Lady Meat and Jacqueline Kennedy by enthrone side.^[45] Afterward, Lady Bird built a tape on which she recorded her memories of say publicly assassination, saying it was "primarily as a form of psychotherapy to help me over loftiness shock and horror of decency experience." She submitted a rendering of the tape to illustriousness Warren Commission as testimony.

LBJ advisor Abe Fortas had ended notations on her document suck up to add detail.^[46] In their grouping for their trip to Texas, the Johnsons had intended round on entertain the Kennedys that nighttime at their ranch.^[47]

In the period following the assassination, Lady Pigeon worked with Jacqueline Kennedy range the transition of her mate to the White House.

Behaviour having great respect for Jacqueline and finding her strong squeeze the aftermath of the manslaughter, Lady Bird believed from significance start of her tenure reorganization first lady that she would be unfavorably compared to see immediate predecessor.^[45] On her hindmost day in the White Igloo, Jacqueline Kennedy left Lady Shuttle a note in which she promised she would "be happy" there.^[48]

First Lady of the Banded together States

As first lady and hope presidential confidant, Lady Bird Lexicographer helped establish the public environmental movement in the 1960s.

She worked to beautify Washington, D.C., by planting thousands of floret, set up the White Terrace Natural Beauty Conference, and lobbied Congress for the president's brimming range of environmental initiatives. Effort 1965, she took the star in calling for passage bank the Highway Beautification Act. Nobility act called for control reinforce outdoor advertising, including removal publicize certain types of signs, onward the nation's growing Interstate Pathway System and the existing federal-aid primary highway system.

It extremely required certain junkyards along Interstate or primary highways to emerging removed or screened and pleased scenic enhancement and roadside development.^[49] According to Secretary of Civil Stewart Udall, she single-handedly, "influenced the president to demand-and support-more far-sighted conservation legislation."^[50]

Her capital adornment project turned the national means into a showcase for excellence nation.^[51] It was intended pause improve physical conditions in General, D.C., for residents and tourists by planting millions of flower bloom, many of them on Secure Park Service land along roadways around the capital.^[41] She blunt, "Where flowers bloom, so does hope."

She worked extensively take up again the American Association of Nurserymen (AAN) executive Vice President Parliamentarian F.

Lederer to protect wildflowers and promoted planting them council highways. Her efforts inspired like programs throughout the country. She became the first president's bride to advocate actively for legislation^[2] when she was instrumental develop promoting the Highway Beautification Episode, which was nicknamed "Lady Bird's Bill".^[4] It was developed work stoppage beautify the nation's highway plan by limiting billboards and from one side to the ot planting roadside areas.

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She was also an advocate be useful to the Head Start program exhaustively give children from lower-income families a step up in institution readiness.^[2]

Lady Bird created the another structure of the First Lady's office: she was the good cheer in this role to maintain a press secretary and hefty of staff of her drive down, and an outside liaison reach Congress.^[41] Her press secretary proud 1963 to 1969 was Liz Carpenter, a fellow alumna operate the University of Texas.

Laugh a mark of changing former, Carpenter was the first white-collar newswoman to become press compile to a First Lady; she also served as Lady Bird's staff director. Lady Bird's possession as First Lady marked distinction beginning of hiring employees fragment the East Wing to swipe specifically on the First Lady's projects.^[36]

President Johnson had initially whispered he would turn down excellence Democratic Party nomination for chairwoman in 1964, having been sad during his service in The man Kennedy's administration and believing greatness party did not want him.

Although aides could not teeter him, the First Lady free from doubt him otherwise, reassuring him snare his worthiness and saying lose concentration if he dropped out, influence Republicans would likely take nobleness White House.^[52]

During the 1964 offensive, Lady Bird traveled through digit Southern states from October 6 to 9 in a hired train, the Lady Bird Special, at one point giving 45 speeches over four days.^{[36][41][53][54]} Cheer was the first solo whistle-stop tour by a First Lady.^[34] In the same month, Mohammedan Bird continued her campaign twine by airplane, with stops concern Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Indiana, good turn Kentucky.^[55]

In the November 1964 statesmanlike election, Johnson won a landslip victory over his Republican rival, Barry Goldwater.

At the observance to swear in the fresh president, Lady Bird held nobility Bible as her husband took the oath of office opponent January 20, 1965, starting exceptional tradition which continues.^[56]

On September 22, 1965, Lady Bird dedicated unadulterated Peoria, Illinois, landscape plaza, check on the president of the Metropolis City Beautification Association, Leslie Kenyon, saying during the ceremony ditch Lady Bird was the precede presidential spouse "who has visited our city as an legal guest in our 140 era of existence."^[57]

On September 22, 1966, Lady Bird dedicated the Strath Canyon Dam in northern Arizona, fulfilling a goal that both presidents Kennedy and Johnson challenging sought to accomplish.

She vocal the dam belonged to standup fight Americans amid an increasing complication for water that affected each one American "no matter whether sharptasting lives in New York be obsessed with Page, Arizona."^[58]

In late-August 1967, Dame Bird traveled to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to attend the Exhibit 67, a White House coadjutor saying she had been urged by the President to move there since his own characteristic three months prior.^[59]

In mid-September 1967, Lady Bird began touring significance Midwestern United States as baggage of a trip that put off White House described as "mostly agriculture during the day swallow culture at night." President President was then declining in point in time by farmers, months before cool planned re-election bid.^[60] Speaking elect a crowd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on September 20, Lady Dove said problems within American cities were creating crime.^[61]

In January 1968 at a White House luncheon,^[62]Eartha Kitt, when asked by significance first lady what her views were on the Vietnam Battle, replied: "You send the suited of this country off say you will be shot and maimed.

Clumsy wonder the kids rebel with the addition of take pot." Kitt's anti-war remarks reportedly angered Lyndon and Wife. Johnson, and this resulted train in the derailment of Kitt's glossed career.^{[63][64][65][66]}

Toward the end of Johnson's first term, Lady Bird was anxious for her husband inhibit leave office.^[67] In September 1967, Lady Bird voiced her dealings that a second term would be detrimental to his prosperity.

Health concerns may have back number one of the reasons ground President Johnson decided not hold down seek re-election.^[68]

In 1970, Lady Shuttlecock published A White House Diary, her intimate, behind-the-scenes account a selection of her husband's presidency spanning Nov 22, 1963, to January 20, 1969.

Beginning with President Kennedy's assassination, she recorded the major events of her times, plus the Great Society's War diffuse Poverty; the national civil assertion and social protest movements; quash activism on behalf of greatness environment; and the Vietnam Hostilities.

Johnson was acquainted with well-ordered long span of fellow regulate ladies, from Eleanor Roosevelt give explanation Laura Bush.

She was hermitic by the United States Strange Service for 44 years.^[69]

Biographer Betty Boyd Caroli said in 2015 of Johnson that

She truly invented the job of class modern first lady. She was the first one to be blessed with a big staff, the control one to have a extensive program in her own honour, the first one to copy a book about the Milky House years, when she leaves.

She had an important duty in setting up an long-lasting role for her husband restore the LBJ Library. She's illustriousness first one to campaign chiefly on her own for set aside husband.^[70]

Writing in 1986, William Revolve. Inman observed that Johnson was considered by some "the accumulate effective First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt", citing her battles surface highway billboard forests, auto myriad, and junk piles as sufficiently as her support for Earth public landscapes maintaining beauty most recent sanity.^[71]

Later life

Former president Johnson grand mal of a heart attack strike home 1973, four years after abandon ship office.^[36] When he suffered justness heart attack, Lady Bird was in a meeting, and nobility former president had died conj at the time that she reached him.

She firm for the body to arrangement in state at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library avoid Museum the following day, plus the body was laid adjacent to rest two days later. Glory couple's elder daughter, Lynda, aforesaid that God "knew what significant was doing" when her dad died ahead of her mother; she thought her father would not have been able test live without Lady Bird.^[72] Back his death, Lady Bird took time to travel and weary more time with her daughters.^[73] She remained in the universal eye, honoring her husband avoid other presidents.

She entertained distinction wives of governors at primacy LBJ Presidential Library.^[74]

In the Decade, Johnson focused her attention foreword the Austin riverfront area system her involvement in the Region Lake Beautification Project. From 1971 to 1978, she served drive the board of regents storage the University of Texas System.^[75] She also served on character National Park Service Advisory Timber, and was the first wife to serve on National True Society's board of trustees.^[36]President President mentioned her as a feasible ambassador in a circulated sense, but never nominated her in the vicinity of office.^[36]

In December 1973, after Chief honcho Nixon established the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on prestige Potomac, he notified Johnson about a telephone call.^[76]

In August 1975, after First Lady Betty Work one`s way assail made comments on sex, Writer expressed sympathy: "I know rectitude pressures of being a Twig Lady, and I think possibly she got asked one issue too quick."^[77]

During the 1976 Allied States presidential election, Democratic favourite Jimmy Carter apologized to President over comments he made nearly her husband during an investigate in which he stated illegal would not follow trends chastisement "lying, cheating, and distorting primacy truth" set forth by nag Presidents Nixon and Johnson.^[78]

In Nov 1977, Johnson spoke at honourableness 1977 National Women's Conference in the midst other speakers including Rosalynn Transmitter, Betty Ford, Bella Abzug, Barbara Jordan, Cecilia Burciaga, Gloria Feminist, Lenore Hershey and Jean O'Leary.^[79]

On March 12, 1980, Johnson shared to the White House discipline attended a reception commemorating description fifteenth anniversary of the Purpose Start program.

In his remarks, President Carter expressed gratitude disclose her attending as he avowed "she personifies too, as paying attention know, the essence of what this great man did mess up those who worked around him", referring to her late husband.^[80]

In June 1981, officials of College College stated that Johnson scold former president Gerald Ford would serve as co-chairs of nobility fundraising committee for the Altruist Center for the Social Sciences.^[81] Johnson later attended the earnestness of the center in Sept 1983.^[82]

In 1982, Johnson and player Helen Hayes founded the Delicate Wildflower Research Center west go together with Austin, Texas, as a nonprofitmaking organization devoted to preserving highest reintroducing native plants in fit landscapes.^[83] In 1994, the sentiment opened a new facility sou'west of Austin; they officially renamed it the Lady Bird President Wildflower Center in 1995^[84] slash acknowledgment of her having upraised $10 million for the facility.^[41] In 2006, the center was incorporated into the University diagram Texas at Austin.^[84]

In 1988, Johnson convened with three in the opposite direction former first ladies—Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and Pat Nixon—at leadership "Women and the Constitution" convention at The Carter Center fro assess that document's impact wonder women.

The conference featured power 150 speakers and 1,500 attendees from all 50 states fairy story 10 foreign countries. The word was meant to promote knowing on sexual inequality in curb countries, and fight against get a breath of air in America.^[85]

In September 1991, Lexicologist unveiled a new line look up to English porcelain flower sculpture delay drew influence from American wildflowers in the Corrigan's Jewelry parallel NorthPark Center in Dallas.^[86]

For 20 years, Johnson spent her summers on the Massachusetts island allround Martha's Vineyard, renting the house of Charles Guggenheim for uncountable of those years.

She blunt she had greatly appreciated justness island's natural beauty and flowers.^[87]

In August 1984, Johnson publicly conjectural her support for the vice-presidential nomination of Geraldine Ferraro discharge that year's presidential election to the fullest admitting the difficulty the Mondale-Ferraro ticket faced in winning Texas.^[88]

Johnson returned to the White Bedsit for the twenty-fifth-anniversary celebration virtuous her husband's inauguration on Apr 6, 1990.

Incumbent president Martyr H. W. Bush praised scrap for her support of turn a deaf ear to husband and work toward attractive landscapes.^[89]

On October 13, 2006, Author made a rare public image at the renovation announcement honor the LBJ Library and Museum.

Health problems and death

In 1986, 13 years after her husband's death, Johnson's health began suck up to fail.

She suffered her be in first place fainting spell that year from the past attending a funeral, and entered St. David's Community Hospital tend observation. She also injured worldweariness left knee in a cascade the day before her hospitalization.^[90] In August 1993, she reception a stroke and became lawfully blind due to macular process.

In 1999, she was hospitalized for a second fainting sortilege. In 2002, she suffered spiffy tidy up second, more severe, stroke, which prevented her from speaking as a rule or walking without assistance. Kick up a fuss 2005, she spent a infrequent days in an Austin retreat for treatment of bronchitis. Heavens February 2006, Lynda Johnson Robb told a gathering at illustriousness Truman Library in Independence, River, that her mother was to the core blind and was "not mediate very good health".^[91] In June 2007, she spent six epoch in Seton Hospital in Austin after suffering from a mediocre fever.^[92]

Lady Bird Johnson died reduced home on July 11, 2007, at 4:18 p.m.

(CDT) from pure causes at the age blame 94, attended by family chapters and Catholic priest Father Parliamentarian Scott.^[93][94][95]

At the funeral service, unite daughter, Luci Baines Johnson, gave a eulogy, saying, "A cowed weeks before Mother died, Comical was taking visiting relatives offer the extraordinary Blanton Art Museum ...

Mother was on IV antibiotics, a feeding tube, lecturer oxygen, but she wasn't gonna let little things like renounce deter her from discovering alternate great art museum. What spruce picture we were—literally rolling brush-off the museum like a unstationary hospital."^[96]

Three weeks before Johnson's swallow up, the rector of St.

Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, repudiate second home for over 50 years, had announced to diadem parishioners that she had terrestrial $300,000 to pay off rank church's mortgage.^[97]

Johnson's funeral was top-hole public event. On July 15, 2007, a ceremonial cortège keep steady the Texas State Capitol.

Birth public was invited to zipper the route through downtown Austin on Congress Avenue and at the head the shores of Lady Culver Lake to pay their congratulations. The public part of leadership funeral procession ended in President City. The family had clever private burial at the Writer family cemetery in Stonewall, hoop she is buried next lock her husband, who had petit mal 34 years earlier.^[98] Unlike earlier funerals for first ladies, birth pallbearers came from members donation the armed forces.^[98][99]

Historical assessments

Since 1982 Siena College Research Institute has periodically conducted surveys asking historians to assess American first landed gentry according to a cumulative grade on the independent criteria dead weight their background, value to decency country, intelligence, courage, accomplishments, incorruptibility, leadership, being their own brigade, public image, and value medical the president.

Consistently, Johnson has ranked among the seven-most tremendously regarded first ladies in these surveys.^[100] In terms of accumulative assessment, Johnson has been ranked:

In the 2008 Siena Delving Institute survey, Johnson was row on row in the top five put on view six out of the give a call criteria, ranking the 5th pre-eminent in background, 5th highest reap intelligence, 5th highest in expenditure to the country, 5th greatest in integrity, 4th highest razor-sharp her accomplishments, and 5th chief in leadership.^[101] In additional questions asked in the 2014 confront, among 20th- and 21st-century Denizen first ladies, historians assessed Lexicologist as the 5th easiest unexpected imagine serving as president yourselves, having had the 5th-greatest citizens service after leaving the Snowwhite House, and having been high-mindedness 5th best in creating exceptional lasting legacy.^[100] In the 2014 survey, Johnson and her hubby were also ranked the Ordinal highest out of 39 pull it off couples in terms of make available a "power couple".^[102]

Honors

On August 27, 1969, President Richard Nixon loyal a 300-acre (120 ha) grove rule redwood trees as the "Lady Bird Johnson Grove" due keep from her efforts as First Girl toward preserving national resources select Americans.

The grove is placed just north of Orick, Calif., and is part of Sequoia National Park. Lady Bird fraudulent the dedication with former Administrator Johnson.^[103]

Lady Bird Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Liberation by President Gerald Ford compassion January 10, 1977.

The concern for her medal read:

One of America's great First Upper crust, she claimed her own owner in the hearts and record of the American people. Check councils of power or increase homes of the poor, she made government human with composite unique compassion and her tarnish, warmth and wisdom. Her management transformed the American landscape post preserved its natural beauty likewise a national treasure.^[17]

She received nobleness Congressional Gold Medal in 1988, becoming the first wife support a president to receive authority honor.^[1] In a 1982 survey taken of historians ranking description most influential and important Crowning Ladies, Lady Bird was grade third—behind Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt—primarily for her work makeover a conservation activist.^[4]

In 1995, honourableness National Wildflower Research Center, secure Austin, Texas, was renamed influence Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Emotions.

She and actress Helen President founded the center in 1982.

In 1966, she was awarded the National Institute of Group Sciences Gold Medal for Secondment to Humanity.

In 1995, Islamist Bird received the Golden Mass Award of the American Institution of Achievement.^[104]

In November 1968, River Island, in Washington, D.C., was renamed Lady Bird Johnson Redden in honor of her fundraiser as first lady to redecorate the capital.

In 1976, representation Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Forest on the Potomac was over-enthusiastic on Columbia Island.^[4]

Lady Bird declined many overtures to name Austin's Town Lake in her accept after she had led smart campaign to clean up distinction lake and add trails puzzle out its shoreline; following her discourteous, Austin Mayor Will Wynn's centre of operations said it was a "foregone conclusion that Town Lake review going to be renamed" scheduled honor of Lady Bird Johnson.^[17] The lake was renamed Moslem Bird Lake on July 26, 2007.^[105]

In April 2008, the "Lady Bird Johnson Memorial Cherry Greatest or finest poin Grove" was dedicated to Marshfield, Missouri.

The dedication took link during the city's annual pink blossom festival. Johnson had endorsed the rural community and their initiative to plant ornamental cherry-red trees.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, she standard an Honor Award from character National Building Museum for penetrate lifetime leadership in beautification station conservation campaigns.^[106] She was likewise named the honorary chairwoman discern the Head Start program.^[17]

Lady Sitting duck held honorary degrees from distinct universities: Boston University; the Installation of Alabama; George Washington University; Johns Hopkins University; State Rule of New York; Southern Protestant University; Texas Woman's University; Middlebury College; Williams College, Southwestern University; Texas State University–San Marcos; President College; and St.

Edward's University.^[17]

On June 7, 2008, Texas established Lady Bird by renaming depiction state convention's Blue Star Nosh as the 'Lady Bird Breakfast'.^[107] In January 2009, St. Edward's University in Austin completed fastidious new residence hall for upperclassmen bearing the name of Muhammedan Bird Johnson Hall, or "LBJ Hall" for short.^[108]

On August 28, 2008, Lady Bird Johnson Big School was opened in disallow name in San Antonio, Texas, a part of the Northward East Independent School District.

On October 22, 2012, the Banded together States Postal Service announced glory issue of a souvenir Incessantly stamp sheet honoring Lady Shuttlecock Johnson as a tribute effect her legacy of beautifying dignity nation's roadsides, urban parks flourishing trails. Five of the outrage stamps feature adaptations of stamps originally issued in the Decennary to promote planting in defeat spaces.

The sixth stamp splendour her official White House form, a painting of the Head Lady in a yellow peignoir, by Elizabeth Shoumatoff. The stamps were dedicated on November 30, 2012, at the Lady Fowl Johnson Wildflower Center of Greatness University of Texas at Austin.^[109]

In 2013, Lady Bird was posthumously awarded the prestigious Rachel Biologist Award.

The award, presented strong Audubon's Women in Conservation, was accepted by her daughter Lynda.^[110]

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