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Lady Bird Johnson was 94 when she died July 11 at the Johnson ranch near Austin, surrounded by family and friends. It was a peaceful end to a life that had had its share of turmoil. Like her husband, she arrived at the White House the hard way, catapulted there by the murder of John F. Kennedy. Just as daunting, her predecessor as First Lady was Jacqueline Kennedy--to put it mildly, a hard act to follow. She couldn't hope to play Jackie, and wisely she didn't try. Her own style was modest, warm and reassuring, which...
...adored her husband, who didn't always make it easy for her. L.B.J. had a coarse and roguish side, and throughout their marriage she saw her share of it. But he was devoted to her, and why not? On the campaign trail, she helped reassure suspicious fellow Southerners about her husband's pro-- civil rights stances. She was by his side as the furor over Vietnam overtook his presidency. And for good measure, it was Lady Bird who laid the roots for the Johnson-family wealth. In 1943 she invested $17,000 from her mother's estate in the purchase...
...show is also stark and up front about the cost of years of war--starker, in a way, because the focus is on the families left behind. Pamela (Brigid Brannagh)--whose husband is about to ship off for duty--becomes a surrogate mother to keep the family afloat (a reminder of how stretched military families often are). Roland (Sterling K. Brown) deals with his returned-vet wife's drinking and post-traumatic stress disorder. Denise (Catherine Bell) waits anxiously after her husband's Blackhawk crashes in Iraq. Only one spouse goes to war, the show says, but the whole family...
...this point, Clinton undoubtedly suffers from the double whammy of being a Democrat and a Clinton. Even Democrats tended to chalk up her husband's religious fluency to his general political skill, the ability to be everything to everyone, while Republicans saw him as a fake who exploited religion for political purposes and pandered to voters. Now Senator Clinton, the lifelong Methodist and one-time Sunday school teacher, is in a bind: So many voters think they "know" she can't possibly be religious that when she speaks about her faith, they interpret it as pure political posturing...
Many political observers believe she can claim a big part of her husband's lopsided win over Barry Goldwater in 1964. The South, angry over LBJ's civil rights efforts, was smoldering when she whistle-stopped from Virginia to New Orleans on the Lady Bird Special, at first enduring catcalls and hostile placards ("Fly Away Black Bird") but the same soft tolerance she used on her husband she used on the southern crowds: "In this country we have many viewpoints. You are entitled to yours. Right now I am entitled to mine." By New Orleans the stories of her sweet...