Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson (1912–2007) was an American first lady, married to President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
She championed environmental conservation and highway beautification, leading to the Highway Beautification Act of 1965.
Her nickname came from a childhood nurse who said she was "as purty as a lady bird." Born Claudia Alta Taylor.
- Head StartFederal early childhood services
- beautificationAct of enhancing appearance
- wildflowersUncultivated flowering plants
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- Martha WashingtonInitial first lady
Lyndon B. Johnson · Hubert Humphrey · environmentalism · civil rights · trailblazer · public service · Democrat · Great Society · War on Poverty · bluebonnets · Medicare · White House · social welfare · sixties · ranch · Austin · Washington · Lyndon
- First LadiesMartha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt
- Famous TexansSam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, LBJ
- LBJ EraLBJ, Great Society, Vietnam War, War on Poverty, Civil Rights Act
- Texas Hill CountryFredericksburg, Stonewall, wineries, peach orchards, limestone hills
- Environmentalistsenvironmentalist, conservationist, eco-warrior, eco warrior, tree hugger
Lady Bird JohnsonNancy Reagan
Melania Trump · Pat Nixon · Barbara Bush · Laura Bush · Mary Todd Lincoln
Lady Bird JohnsonHillary Clinton
Eleanor Roosevelt · Nancy Reagan · Jackie Kennedy · Melania Trump · Michelle Obama
Lady Bird JohnsonJames Watt
Horsepower term originator
strip mining · urban blight · industrial pollution · environmental degradation · deforestation
ladies, birds, ladylike, ladybug, landlady, birdsong, birdhouse, birdwatching, ladyship