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Lady Bird Johnson

Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the First Lady of the United States (1963–1969) as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. She also served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1961 until President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

Air, Children, Mean, Old, Pass, Roadsides

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Anesthetized, Close, Fully, Hell, Pain, Problem

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Clash, Freedom, Ideas, Sound

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Firsts, Husband, Person, Politics, Public, Unpaid

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

Coach, Disappointment, Pumpkin, Running, Turned

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

Delicious, Dinner, Too Much

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Earth Day, Interest, Mutual, Mutual Interest, Nature, Thing

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Bachelor, Politician, Politics, Remain, Should Have

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

Adventure, Alive, Nothing, Prove, Stress

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Renewal, Site, Thirst, Responds, Satisfying, Beauty

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Creation, Creativity, Inspirational, Used, Wonderful

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

Garden, Childhood, Untamed, Beauty, Person

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Lucky, Memories, Scrapbooking, Treasure

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

Children, Government, Improve, Plants, Tree

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Apt, Believe, Children, Kids

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Heart, Wildflowers, Stuff

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Bother, Bustle, Christmas, Though, Worth

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

Flower, Color, Cities, City, Lipstick, Look

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Art, Man, Men, See, Soul, Window

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

Cause, Help, Jobs, Land, Waiting, Wildflowers

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