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Lady Bird Johnson....
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Oh how sad. But that's a good time to live on this earth too!
She really kept LBJ going when he was down. She forced him to go bowling in the White House basement to get away from work.
What a woman.
What a woman.
Wow 94, she has seen so much more than her husband did. May she RIP
Now they are together again
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OOOOOOO You gave me a chill down my spine!!!Originally Posted by Bella713
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Bless her heart, what a remarkable woman!!
I loved Lady Bird... especially because of the huge impact she had on environmental issues. Here in Texas, she started an anti-littering campaign that made people really think about what they were doing, and completely changed the face of the state.
When I was 21, I was working at KTBC TV in Austin, which was located in a building owned by the Johnsons. (They had owned the station, too, but had to sell it when the law changed and they could no longer own both a cable company and a TV station.) LBJ had died a few years earlier, but when Lady Bird was in town, she still lived in a penthouse on top of the building, and of course, she had Secret Service protection -- two agents at all times.
One day I came back from lunch in a big hurry, slipped behind a crowd of people to step onto the elevator, and hit the button for my floor. Then I realized no other buttons had been hit, so I turned to ask the other person in the elevator what floor she needed -- and it was Lady Bird! Somehow, I had slipped past the Secret Service and gotten in there alone with the former First Lady of the United States!
She was holding a shopping bag from Frost Bros. (where I had, coincidentally, worked briefly before starting at KTBC). I apologized for intruding, and she said, "That's okay, hon." I got off on four, and I guess she rode back down to the lobby to pick up her escorts.
I later heard that some Secret Service heads rolled for that. If I could do it, so could some homicidal nutjob!
Anyway, I'm glad she had such a good long life, and I hope heaven is bursting with wildflowers for her.
When I was 21, I was working at KTBC TV in Austin, which was located in a building owned by the Johnsons. (They had owned the station, too, but had to sell it when the law changed and they could no longer own both a cable company and a TV station.) LBJ had died a few years earlier, but when Lady Bird was in town, she still lived in a penthouse on top of the building, and of course, she had Secret Service protection -- two agents at all times.
One day I came back from lunch in a big hurry, slipped behind a crowd of people to step onto the elevator, and hit the button for my floor. Then I realized no other buttons had been hit, so I turned to ask the other person in the elevator what floor she needed -- and it was Lady Bird! Somehow, I had slipped past the Secret Service and gotten in there alone with the former First Lady of the United States!
She was holding a shopping bag from Frost Bros. (where I had, coincidentally, worked briefly before starting at KTBC). I apologized for intruding, and she said, "That's okay, hon." I got off on four, and I guess she rode back down to the lobby to pick up her escorts.
I later heard that some Secret Service heads rolled for that. If I could do it, so could some homicidal nutjob!
Anyway, I'm glad she had such a good long life, and I hope heaven is bursting with wildflowers for her.
