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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.
you could have come trooping out there, it would have been great. ron? well, i couldn t make it all the way to texas. didn t you get the invitation? that s too bad, i think you would have fit ryan right in with lynda bird and lucy baines. obviously your dad was the missing great man here. easily, the great man of this group. well i m sure he would have enjoyed being there, if he could have been. but of course that s not, not possible. it s interesting to watch these things. this is as i think bill clinton or maybe it was barack obama mentioned, a very, very small club. of former presidents here. and george w. bush belongs to an even smaller club, if you will, since the beginning of the 20th century, if i ve got my history right and michael might correct me, there have only been half a dozen presidents, a half a dozen since the beginning of the 20th century who have been elected to and served out two full