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Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson was the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. She had previously been the second lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, when her husband was vice president under President John F. Kennedy.
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business · First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 · entrepreneur · politician · also Lady Bird Johnson, Lady Bird Taylor Johnson, Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson, Claudia Taylor, Claudia Johnson, Claudia Taylor Johnson
Born 22 December 1912 · Died 11 July 2007 · Q233648
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She already had this dignity, no matter how he yelled at her, but she transformed herself from the shy young woman afraid of speaking in public into the poised, dignified, gracious first lady the American people would come to admire in later years,
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2026· 4 entries
“She already had this dignity, no matter how he yelled at her, but she transformed herself from the shy young woman afraid of speaking in public into the poised, dignified, gracious first lady the American people would come to admire in later years,”
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“a very different period of our lives.”
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Public attention spiked: 7,541 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.5× the usual 1,169, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Lady Bird Johnson
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insider.si.edu: Lady Bird Johnson : an oral history / Michael L. Gillette
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2020· 1 entry
In the 2008 Siena Research Institute survey, Johnson was ranked in the top five for six out of the ten criteria, ranking the 5th highest in background, 5th highest in intelligence, 5th highest in value to the country, 5t
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2019· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says the late Lady Bird Johnson sicced the CIA on actress and singer Eartha Kitt after Kitt spoke out against the Vietnam War during a White House luncheon in January 1968.” Mostly False.
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Rachel Carson Award (2013).
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Lady Bird was posthumously awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Award
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2012· 2 entries
At the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin
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The United States Postal Service announced the issue of a souvenir Forever stamp sheet honoring Lady Bird Johnson as a tribute to her legacy of beautifying the nation's roadsides, urban parks and trails
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2008· 2 entries
Lady Bird Johnson High School was opened in her name in San Antonio, Texas, a part of the North East Independent School District
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Texas honored Lady Bird by renaming the state convention's Blue Star Breakfast as the 'Lady Bird Breakfast'
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2007· 2 entries
A ceremonial cortège left the Texas State Capitol
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Died 2007-07-11.
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2006· 2 entries
Johnson made a rare public appearance at the renovation announcement of the LBJ Library and Museum
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The center was incorporated into the University of Texas at Austin
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2005· 1 entry
Spent a few days in an Austin hospital for treatment of bronchitis
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2002· 1 entry
Suffered a second, more severe, stroke, which prevented her from speaking normally or walking without assistance
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1999· 1 entry
Was hospitalized for a second fainting spell
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1995· 3 entries
The National Wildflower Research Center, near Austin, Texas, was renamed the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
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Lady Bird received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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Received an Honor Award from the National Building Museum for her lifetime leadership in beautification and conservation campaigns
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1994· 1 entry
The center opened a new facility southwest of Austin; they officially renamed it the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in 1995 in acknowledgment of her having raised $10 million for the facility
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1988· 2 entries
Johnson convened with three other former first ladies—Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and Pat Nixon—at the "Women and the Constitution" conference at The Carter Center to assess that document's impact on women
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Becoming the first wife of a president to receive the honor
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1986· 1 entry
13 years after her husband's death, Johnson's health began to fail
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1982· 1 entry
Johnson and actress Helen Hayes founded the National Wildflower Research Center west of Austin, Texas, as a nonprofit organization devoted to preserving and reintroducing native plants in planned landscapes
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1980· 1 entry
Johnson returned to the White House and attended a reception commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Head Start program
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1977· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Gerald Ford (1977).
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And the Congressional Gold Medal in 1984, the highest honors bestowed upon a U
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1976· 1 entry
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac was dedicated on Columbia Island
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year (1975).
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1970· 1 entry
Lady Bird published A White House Diary, her intimate, behind-the-scenes account of her husband's presidency spanning November 22, 1963, to January 20, 1969
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1969· 1 entry
President Richard Nixon dedicated a 300-acre (120 ha) grove of redwood trees as the "Lady Bird Johnson Grove" due to her efforts as First Lady toward preserving national resources for Americans
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1966· 2 entries
Lady Bird dedicated the Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona, fulfilling a goal that both presidents Kennedy and Johnson had sought to accomplish
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Was awarded the National Institute of Social Sciences Gold Medal for Services to Humanity
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1965· 2 entries
Lady Bird dedicated a Peoria, Illinois, landscape plaza, with the president of the Peoria City Beautification Association, Leslie Kenyon, saying during the ceremony that Lady Bird was the first presidential spouse "who h
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Took the lead in calling for passage of the Highway Beautification Act
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1964· 1 entry
Having been unhappy during his service in President Kennedy's administration and believing the party did not want him
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1963· 2 entries
The Johnsons were accompanying the Kennedys in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated; they were two cars behind the president in his motorcade
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Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (1963–1969).
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1961· 1 entry
Career landmark: Second Lady or Gentleman of the United States (1961–1963).
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1943· 1 entry
“That increased my self-worth and gave me courage to try to start a business of my own.”
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1934· 1 entry
When he was a political hopeful in Austin, Texas, she used a modest inheritance to bankroll his congressional campaign and then ran his office while he served in the Navy
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1933· 1 entry
And a second bachelor's degree in journalism cum laude in 1934
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1912· 5 entries
Born 1912-12-22.
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In Karnack, Texas, a town in Harrison County, near the eastern state line with Louisiana
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“BBC News (30 January 2023) Account of a phone call in February 2022 shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a BBC documentary series (Putin vs the West) on President Putin”
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“The Telegraph (7 January 2014) ==== 2015 ==== Putin”
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“, The Times (8 October 2024) Defending the refurbishment of the flat, controversial at time because of the cost and (originally) opaque funding, which was formerly occupied by Johnson”
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