11 Things You Didn’t Know About...
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Lady Bird Johnson is a legacy. Her courageous
efforts to make the world a more beautiful
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Her favorite colplace led her to perfecting the Capitol grounds
ors were coral
and founding her own wildflower center. As
and navy.
First Lady she made the role into something
Got her nickthat was respected. She had her own chief of
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name from her
staff and her own projects that did not just
nurse, Alice
involve choosing China patterns. It would be
Tittle, who said
Lady Bird’s 102nd birthday December 22nd, so
she was as “purty as a ladycheck out the facts below to celebrate “Bird’s” bird.” Her father and siblings
lifelong pursuits.
called her Lady and Lyndon
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Lady Bird
She graduo
grew to love
ated from high
the outschool, third in
doors by
her class, at the age of
growing up in the tall pines 15. She had been drivand bayous of East Texas
ing herself to school, a
and watching the wildflow- distance of 15 miles each
ers bloom each spring.
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She
graduated
A friend
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from UT with
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was going
a Bachelor of
to the UniArts degree
versity of
with honors in 1933
Texas at Austin so Lady
and in 1934 a second bachBird chartered a plane
elor’s degree in journalism
to Austin and fell in love Cum Laude in 1934. She
with the city and bluewas active in the Orange
bonnets.
Jackets.
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She purchased
KTBC, an
Austin radio station, and KTBC-TV/7, an
Austin TV station against
Lyndon’s wishes. This
business investment
later made them millionaires.
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In the
White
House she
was the
first to have her own Press
Secretary and launched
a capitol beautification
program. She went on the
first solo whistlestop tour
as the First Lady.
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called her Bird. Bird was used
on their marriage license.
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She let her grades
slip her senior
year so she would
not have to give the valedictorian or salutorian speech.
LBJ took Lady
Bird on their first
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date to breakfast
at the Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin. He
proposed to her on a drive in
the country that morning. She
accepted his proposal 10 weeks
later & they were married on
November 17, 1934.
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To finance
Lyndon’s
political
career she
invested $10,000 into his
first campaing. When he
joined the Navy she ran
his congressional office.
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