Lady Bird Johnson 1912-2007

Fond Farewell
- Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
- Liz Claiborne 1929-2007
- Jerry Falwell 1933-2007
- Steve Fossett 1944-2007
- Robert Goulet 1933-2007
- Merv Griffin 1925-2007
- David Halberstam 1934-2007
- Lady Bird Johnson 1912-2007
- Yolanda King 1955-2007
- Evel Knievel 1938-2007
- Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007
- Norman Mailer 1923-2007
- Marcel Marceau 1923-2007
- Tammy Faye Messner 1942-2007
- Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007
- Phil Rizzuto 1917-2007
- Max Roach 1924-2007
- Anita Roddick 1942-2007
- Arthur Schlesinger 1917-2007
- Sidney Sheldon 1917-2007
- Beverly Sills 1929-2007
- Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007
- Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007
- Kurt Waldheim 1918-2007
- Bill Walsh 1931-2007
- Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007
From her devotion to a man some found crude to her commitment to the cause of beautification, President Lyndon Johnson's widow had a civilizing effect on the nation. Christened Claudia Alta Taylor, she was dubbed Lady Bird as a baby by a family maid because she was "pretty as a ladybird." On their first date in Austin, Texas, Lyndon proposed to Lady Bird, and his 21-year-old bride, he said, went on to become "the brains and money of this family." She invested in a small Austin radio station that would grow into a media conglomerate and make the Johnsons millionaires. On the campaign trail, she softened her husband's hard edges, charming voters with her lilting East Texas accent. As First Lady, she pioneered the green movement, banishing billboards and junkyards and blanketing the capital in daffodils and tulips.










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