Word: johnson
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...Lady Bird's instance, the White House in the Johnson years was a casual home rather than a formal castle...
...time they leave Washington, the Johnsons will have entertained 200 state visitors, more than any other Administration. A shrewd businesswoman, Mrs. Johnson also brought to such events a notable warmth. On one memorable occasion, her calm dignity soothed a White House women's gathering after Eartha Kitt delivered a bitter anti-Administration protest. Elaborate state dinners often wound up with the liveliest late-hour dancing in official memory. What with the engagements and weddings of Daughters Lynda Bird Robb and Luci Nugent, and then the birth of Grandchildren Lyn and Lucinda, the family quarters and public rooms have rarely...
...First Lady will doubtless be best remembered for her wide-ranging efforts to beautify the U.S. While her anti-billboard campaign fizzled, her tree plantings and her continual calls for more parks and better playgrounds have made many Americans more thoughtful about the quality of their environment. Lyndon Johnson once complained, tongue in cheek: "Sometimes I'm interrupted in my nap by Lady Bird and Laurance Rockefeller and about 80 others in the next room talking about flowers and roadside picnic tables...
First of Many. In her travels as First Lady, Mrs. Johnson has aimed to "pull back the curtain" by publicizing little-known community programs for self-help and improvement around the U.S. Some think she did all that-and more...
...often brutal game of national politics where Lady Bird Johnson dwelt in some manner for nearly 70 years she was, said Hugh Sidey, TIME's late chronicler of the American presidency, "as close to being a Godly creature as that anguished realm ever produced." In these last years her admirers (and who was not one?) in sheer frustration at the inadequacy of language to capture her virtues would say over and over again, "Lady Bird is a saint...