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Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Johnson

Lady Bird Johnson was the first lady from 1963 thru 1969. she was born in 1912 in Texas on an old slave plantation he father had purchased before she was born. She was named after her mother's brother, Claud, but became more commonly known as 'Lady Bird' when her nurse compared her to a lady bird, also known as a ladybug. When Lady Bird was but five, her pregnant mother fell down a flight of stairs and died because of complications in her miscarriage, leaving Lady Bird to be looked after by her aunt. On her and Lydon B Johnson's first date, he proposed to her, but she didn't answer until ten weeks later. They had two daughters, both with the initials LBJ. When LBJ ran with Kennedy for presidency, she took Jacqueliene Kennedy's responsibility, as Jacqueliene was pregnant at the time. as first lady, she started a beautification campain to make Washington look beautiful and created the modern first lady structure. She died not too long ago, in 2007, and was buried next to her husband, whom died 35 years earlier.

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