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Lady Bird Johnson, first lady and diarist
In 1993 Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, welcomed "Sunday Morning"'s Charles Kuralt to the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas, where they talked about the former first lady's legacy.
"When you come right down to it," Kuralt asked, "it's a good deal of trouble to plant wildflowers in great abundance – what good do they do?"
"Just joy," she replied, "and joy is a component of life, or
should be."
Lady Bird Johnson in 1993.
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But Mrs. Johnson's famous commitment to "beautification" was about much more than planting wildflowers along highways. A life-long environmentalist, she believed all Americans needed access to nature.