I’ve always had a high respect and affection for the former First Lady, Mrs. Johnson and was sad to hear of her passing, even at the ripe old age of 94. She loved and supported a sometimes unpopular President and difficult Husband with grace and privacy. 

“I always thought perhaps the most important words spoken in the White House were Lady Bird saying, ‘Now Lyndon, now Lyndon,’”

Each thick patch of bluebonnets, indian paintbrushes or brown-eyed susans is a living homage to a Grand Woman who beautified America, for all the future generations’ pleasure.

 Claudia Alta Taylor was born to a prosperous East Texas family. She earned the nickname that would stay with her throughout her life when a nursemaid remarked that she was “as pretty as a lady bird.”

In 1934, after a two-month courtship, she married Lyndon Baines Johnson, then a congressional aide.

“In our case, we were better together than we were apart,” she said in a 1988 NBC News special. “And I knew that, and I loved my share of life with him.”