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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. CBS News
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.
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This week on Sunday Morning (March 14)
Host: Jane Pauley
Since the COVID pandemic began, one in three Americans has had reduced quality sleep. Correspondent Susan Spencer pulls back the covers on how pandemic stress is among the factors affecting people s already-tortured relationship with shuteye. Spencer talks with Drew Ackerman, a lifelong chronic insomniac whose storytelling podcast, Sleep With Me, lulls listeners to slumberland; and with professors Sharon Bowman, Jennifer Martin and Tiffany Yip about the importance of sleep hygiene, and the effects of reduced sleep on chronic health impacts and productivity.
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