What do you know about Lady Bird Johnson?

Question

Can you list all the positive things she has done for Texas as the Governor's wife and America as the First Lady? How about after when she became a former first lady?

I know the answer. She is the greatest lady ever, but do you?

You are right, I stand corrected LodiTX, he was only a representative, but he was full of stories and this was one of the many I heard out of his own mouth. My favorite is the one about why LBJ's library is located where it is today. Do you know it?

Anthony, she would personally have said thank you if she could have. What a great lady!

She's a great lady who stood behind a rotten man, but he was the man she chose and she stood by him making him better than he was without her. She showed her greatness even more after he died. You never heard her say a word against her own husband. She was a lady first.

Answer 1

Her real name was Claudia.
Jackie was a very hard act to follow, but she managed it by being a traditional First Lady.
Yes - she was a lady. Not so many around in this era of cows, bitches and whôres.

Answer 2

Lyndon Johnson was never governor of Texas, so she was never a governor's wife.

Note: to response to my answer, he wasn't "only" a representative; he was a congressman and then a senator, before being tapped to run for vice president on the Kennedy ticket.

2nd note: Lyndon Johnson was not a rotten man. He was a very effective government leader, as a senator and as a president. In case you've forgotten it was he who got the Civil Rights Act passed and he was totally committed to equality. He receives a lot of bad press for being in office during the initial escalation of the Vietnam war, but the first troops went in during Kennedy's administration, and the country was in general for it at the time. His advisors and the chiefs of staff also advised for it. He was on a train that had left the station and reacted as his generation would. Even had he wanted to, and I am not arguing that he did, it would have been impossible for him to reverse course without derailing a lot of trains. (pardon the mixed metaphor)

When he realized he had lost popular support and that he could not be effective in office he chose to leave it with dignity so that his party would have a chance at replacing him, which they would have, had Bobby Kennedy not been killed. And for those of you who brand Johnson as rotten may I point out that everyone loved Nixon, who we got, and even reelected him, so pardon me if I don't support the view of majorities who are frequently proven wrong. I don't doubt that history will deal favorably with Johnson, long after we are gone.

Answer 3

She became christened Claudia Alta Taylor as a newborn she gained the nickname Ladybird. The call became out to be particularly apropos as she became a great conservationist and intensely in in touch with conserving organic wildflower areas and beautifying the international round her. She married president Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1934. He became the thirty seventh president in 1963 following the assassination of JFK. that they had 2 daughter Lynda fowl and Luci Baines.She became a tireless supporter of her husband and took a particular interest in his conflict on poverty application exceptionally the Headstart project. She additionally created the 1st female's Committee for a extra attractive Capital. a stylish first female who helped advance our united states. she will have the skill to be somewhat ignored.

Answer 4

My best friend's grandmother sang the national anthem during her husband's swearing in. My friend has the letter from Lady Bird, thanking her for singing the anthem.

Answer 5

She loved wildflowers with all of her heart.
http://www.janierichter.com/images/Gallery/bluebonnets.jpg

Answer 6

sorry i just know that she died. cuz i saw it on yahoo! thnx yahoo i feel so smart now

Answer 7

She was married to a warmonger..

Answer 8

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/biographys.hom/ladybird_bio.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson

Hope these links help, hun.

Cheers

Answer 9

i dont know her sorry

Answer 10

Lady Bird Johnson was a 'sweet' woman who provided a welcome counterweight to the acerbic Lyndon Baines Johnson. She was a brilliant businesswoman who built a small radio station into a finacial powerhouse and can be said that radio brightened the day for many a Texan. She was a gracious hostess, very considerate of friends and considerate toward strangers. When Lyndon was a Senator she was considered one of the more thoughtful & wise of the senate Wives.

As First Lady she continued Jackie's renovation of the WHite House, and many feel that she tempered many of Jackie's wildest flights of fancy. Lady Bird made the White House a welcoming place, a refuge from the storms raging around her husband's Presidency.

A link and words on what Lady Bird did to help her husband achieve political greatness.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/news/stories/ladybird/0711ladybird.html
"""Seed money for the campaign came from Lady Bird, who drew $10,000 from her inheritance to help launch her husband's political career. But her shyness — as well as the times — kept this political wife off the stump, and her role in the campaign was very low-key. She licked envelopes, worked the telephones and drove people to the polls.

Mrs. Johnson, as it turned out, was almost as timid as her husband was boisterous in those early years. She has said he pushed her to do more campaigning as time passed.
"Finally, I think it was somewhere in the late '40s, I made my first tentative little speeches," she said.

Three days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lyndon Johnson went into the Navy. Because his assistant, John Connally, also went into the Navy, Johnson's congressional office was turned over to Mrs. Johnson, who ran it for eight months.

Shortly after all congressmen were ordered by President Roosevelt to return to their legislative posts in 1942, Mrs. Johnson used $17,500 of family money and loans to buy a debt-ridden Austin radio station. After the Johnsons persuaded the Federal Communications Commission to grant KTBC the right to broadcast 24 hours a day, the station began to grow and become successful.

When the FCC allotted one VHF television channel to Austin, the LBJ Co. obtained Channel 7. With successful radio and television ventures in Austin, the LBJ Co. expanded to other markets.

"No precise record is available as to how much Mrs. Johnson's business sense, compared with her husband's political clout, made possible such an impressive growth," Austin historian Lewis Gould wrote in a book on Mrs. Johnson. "That they were a partnership in the most meaningful and profitable sense is undeniable."
The family's fortunes also branched out into real estate, and by 1964, the Johnsons had interests in several Texas ranches, resort and residential property, and land in Alabama she had inherited from her father.
When Mrs. Johnson became first lady in 1963, her business savvy came in handy again.
efforts.

In 1965, the president told his Cabinet, "You know I love that woman, and she wants that Highway Beautification Act, and, by God, we're going to get it for her." The act, one of the first modern environmental laws, was an attempt to preserve the scenic beauty of America's highways by prohibiting construction of new billboards on scenic and rural federal-aid highways, and to require the removal of illegal billboards.

She was aware some observers found her beautification campaigns frivolous, thinking her time might have been better spent on weightier matters. And in her characteristic self-deprecating manner, she downplayed her life's work in 1988 during a weekend when she accepted a Congressional Gold Medal for her work in establishing the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin. Congress' most prestigious civilian honor recognizes excellence in a range of fields, including the arts, athletics, politics, science and entertainment.

"I've been crazy about this all my life," she said at the ceremony. "But I always felt slightly apologetic about it. It may seem like a lightweight proposition in a world of heavyweight problems. And it is, of course.

"But I love it."

At the same time, many observers say, her conservation efforts were not only untiring but historically important. They applaud her as a pioneer in the modern environmental movement.

"Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places," wrote Stewart Udall, former U.S. secretary of the interior. "She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens."

"Having a first lady who said that the Grand Canyon should be preserved and the redwoods should not be cut down, that parks should be saved and freeways built with urban residents in mind, meant that environmental issues received a statement of legitimacy and value from the White House and the presidency," Gould wrote in "Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment."

"The result was an instilling of conservation and ecological ideas in the national mind with a skill and adroitness that put Lady Bird Johnson in the front rank among modern first ladies and women in American politics," Gould said.

Mrs. Johnson's love of the outdoors commingled nicely with her status as first lady to produce results.

"It didn't dawn on me that I could possibly be of any use," she said in 1987. "I'm not knowledgeable. I'm primarily an enjoyer, but I did find out in the White House that one individual can make a difference. That is a mighty fine place to make a difference."

Making a difference was facilitated by the fact that the president shared his wife's enthusiasm for environmental matters. Hundreds of laws relating to some aspect of the environment were signed during the Johnson presidency and billions of dollars were set aside for these programs, Gould said. Those figures meant Johnson obtained more environmental legislation than any previous president.

Although some of her accomplishments — such as the Highway Beautification Acts and the wildflower research center — were concrete, her most important legacy might be less visible.

"She made a significant and lasting contribution in terms of changing the views of people in regard to the way they looked at their land and cities," Udall said in 1969.

Her love of nature didn't confine itself to boardrooms and committee work. The outdoors and natural environment were part of Mrs. Johnson's regular day, as her once-frequent walks along Town Lake made evident, along with her picnic/poetry readings on the lawn fronting the LBJ Library.

Her environmental work took her from the National Geographic Society board of trustees to the Advisory Board on National Parks. She also served on the board of the American Conservation Society.

Yet her accomplishments went beyond her efforts at "beautification," a term she disliked, saying it was "prissy."

Education benefited from her touch, as seen in her work as honorary chairwoman of the Head Start early childhood education program."""





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