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Lady Bird Johnson has died spokeswoman says (Age 94 -- July 11, 2007)
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| July 11, 2007
Posted on 07/11/2007 2:35:41 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny
May we give a former First Lady the respect that she is due. Rest in peace, prayers for her family, and may she be remembered fondly.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:25:12 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Be subtle! Be subtle! And use your squirrels for every kind of business.)
To: Liberty Valance
On the banks of the Pedernales river at the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall, Texas.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:25:13 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: leadpenny
I hear that one story
One that make me cringe is one he grab Beagle ears try get them to stand up
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:25:35 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: leadpenny
She had a dignity and class about her that her husband never had.
To: leadpenny
"Lady Bird Johnson and Bess Truman are the only First Ladies of the United States to have lived at least 90 years."Four Presidents lived to be 90: Adams, Hoover, Ford and Reagan.
I guess Betty Ford will reach that age soon, and don't know if the difference is statistically significant, but it could be that life may be harder on politician's wives than on the politicians themselves.
But it does happen that wives --second wives -- like Theodore Roosevelt's and Woodrow Wilson's have long survived their husbands.
For that matter, Bess and Lady Bird long outlived their husbands and lived longer than any president.
"Ugliness is so grim," Lady Bird Johnson once said. "A little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help create harmony which will lessen tensions."
Trite, maybe, but true. She was alright. In a better world, she'd have been President, not the other LBJ.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:27:54 PM PDT
by
x
To: leadpenny
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:31:49 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Duncan Hunter 2008)
To: Dysart
Lyndon treated that poor woman like dirt, but she loved her man and was loyal to him and his memory.
In high school ( a million years ago), I was an intern at KTBC-TV in Austin. I remember seeing Mrs. Johnson around the offices from time to time.
She was part of a generation of tough, classy, Texas womanhood that has almost completely vanished. Sorta sad.
To: Don'tMessWithTexas
Good post. Thank you for that.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:36:31 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: x
But it does happen that wives --second wives -- like Theodore Roosevelt's and Woodrow Wilson's have long survived their husbands. The record holder for outliving a presidential husband is probably Frances Cleveland. She married the 49 year old president when she was 22. She outlived him by 39 years.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:36:33 PM PDT
by
WWTD
To: Artemis Webb
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:37:38 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
To: abb
Indeed. How she put up with the old bastard is mystifying. You are making the mistake of trying to use logic when it comes to women.
Nice women often stupidly go after and attach themselves to the "bad boy".
When I see gal after gal making the decisions they do regarding men, I really think giving them the right to vote was very questionable.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:37:42 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
(Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
To: Liberty Valance
God Bless Her. She was a very strong women. Lord I know you’re arms are open to welcome her.
To: NormsRevenge
In March, she listened from Texas through a conference call when President Bush signed legislation naming the Education Department headquarters building in Washington, D.C., after her late husband. Yet another reason to dismantle the department of education.
R.I.P., Lady Bird.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:39:04 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
(Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
To: Don'tMessWithTexas
She outlived Johnson by 3+ decades (he died in the early 70s of heart attack?_) and so atleast she had peace in her final years. She was a gracious first lady - really the only lousy one we’ve had in the last 50 years has been Hillary - even Rosalyn wasn’t an “in your face” first lady.
To: Don'tMessWithTexas
at the ranch near Stonewall.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:40:33 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: princess leah
She was a very nice lady. I am saddened with the loss.
To: traumer
The Roswell aliens did it.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:41:07 PM PDT
by
WinOne4TheGipper
(Now more popular than Congress!* *According to a new RasMESSen Poll.)
To: leadpenny
We’ll have to put up billboards in her honor...
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:41:13 PM PDT
by
null and void
(...and there'd be world peace and fuzzy puppies for everyone. And then we could eat them...)
To: princess leah
We've lost our queen.
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:43:54 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: leadpenny
I’ll have to put this one in the “I thought he/she was already dead” category. RIP
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posted on
07/11/2007 3:45:33 PM PDT
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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