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Lady Bird Johnson influenced LBJ’s key policies by introducing him to leading women thinkers
LBJ and Lady Bird believed in the moral case for government intervention, until Lady Bird met a woman who challenged her.
By Julia Sweig
The following is an excerpt from Julia Sweig’s new book, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight,” which is based the former First Lady’s own words from over 123 hours of audio diaries, most of it never before heard.
In the spring of 1964, while on the lecture circuit in Washington, Barbara Ward took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., sipped tea with Lady Bird Johnson, and dined with the presidential couple. A native of Yorkshire, England, the third-floor guest at the White House had studied as a teenager at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and in Germany before graduating from Oxford in 1935 with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.