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Say Good Bye to Lady Bird

07/11/07 · 6:02 pm :: posted by Opinionator

Sad news to hear about the death of Lady Bird Johnson, widow of Lyndon Baines Johnson, our 36th president. Born in 1912, she survived her husband by decades. Her memorial, besides being one of the first big time environmentalists and conservationists was to help her husband govern by being a warm and supportive presence close to his manic and extroverted ways.

Presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin tells how the President would be raging on and on in his typical over-reactive manner and she would touch his knee and say, "Now Lyndon, you don't mean that do you?" Johnson knew her two weeks when he proposed, she was a beautiful and classy lady who he needed to compliment his politician's bluster. Say a prayer for Lady Bird.

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