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Quick Facts
- NAME: Lady Bird Johnson
- OCCUPATION: Women's Rights Activist, U.S. First Lady
- BIRTH DATE: December 22, 1912
- DEATH DATE: July 11, 2007
- EDUCATION: University of Texas at Austin
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Carnack, Texas
- PLACE OF DEATH: Texas
- Originally: Claudia Alta Taylor
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Lady Bird Johnson was the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and served as first lady from 1963 to 1969.
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Lady Bird Johnson - Conservation
Lady Bird Johnson addressed a crowd of architects in Portland, Oregon with a beautification and conservation plan for America.
Lady Bird Johnson - Postage Stamps
Lady Bird Johnson holds a press conference to address conservation and highway beautification. She announces the release of four nature-themed postage stamps that will serve as messengers for her cause.
Lady Bird Johnson - White House Living Room
Lady Bird Johnson sits in the White House living room, which is where she feels most at home.
Lady Bird Johnson - Crime Prevention
Lady Bird Johnson holds her first Doers Luncheon on crime prevention. Lady Bird invited women leaders from committees and commissions to discuss what can be done about crime.
Lady Bird Johnson. (2012). Biography.com. Retrieved 04:37, May 27, 2012 from http://www.biography.com/people/lady-bird-johnson-9356088
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Synopsis
Lady Bird Johnson was born in Karnack, Texas, on December 22, 1912. As first lady, she supported the "war on poverty," the Headstart Program, and worked for the "beautification" of Washington, DC. Following the presidency, Lady Bird Johnson wrote the 800-page White House Diary. She also remained active in beautification projects and women's rights issues.
Profile
US first lady (1963–9), born Claudia Alta Taylor, in Karnack, Texas, USA on December 22, 1912. As a child, a family nurse declared she was as "pretty as a ladybird." The nickname stuck. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in art followed and continued on there studying journalism, with the plan to become a newspaper reporter.
In the summer of 1934 she met Lyndon Baines Johnson who was a Congressional aide. They married in November 1934, just seven weeks after their first date. She borrowed from her inheritance to help finance his first election campaign.
As first lady, she supported the "war on poverty," the Headstart Program, and worked for the "beautification" of Washington, DC. Following the presidency, Lady Bird Johnson wrote the 800-page White House Diary which detailed her husband's life including the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. She also remained active in beautification projects. In the1960s, she planted bulbs and trees along roadsides to call attention to the growing crisis of habitat and species loss. Lady Bird Johnson created the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital and her work became the first major legislative campaign launched by a first lady, the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. Her love for native wildflowers inspired her to create the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 near Austin, Texas. It was renamed in her honor in 1998.
Lady Bird Johnson also remained outspoken on women's rights issues, calling the equal rights amendment, "the right thing to do." She was honored with the country's highest civilian award: the Medal of Freedom in 1977, and was given the Congressional Gold Medal in 1988.
The widow of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, had suffered a stroke in 2002 that left her with difficulty speaking. She died on July 11, 2007 at the age of 94.
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