Lady Bird Johnson dead

[trof]

Just in on CNN

[Left Is Write]

1. Here's a story on MSNBC.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19717425/

Edited to add - not much of a story; updates to come.

[Katina]

2. Whoa

she always struck me as an extremely gracious woman. Rest in peace Lady Bird

[trof]

6. Yeah, I thought so too.

He wasn't one of my faves, but I liked her.

[sasquatch]

3. RIP Lady Bird

On a lighter note I wonder if they'll cover this on King of the hill.

[In_The_Wind]

4. May she rest in peace.

[bigwillq]

5. RIP

May she rest in peace.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. I'll remember Lady Bird for her highway beautification project.

"Ugliness is so grim," Lady Bird Johnson once said. "A little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help create harmony which will lessen tensions."

That belief -- that beauty can improve the mental health of a society -- and her determination to make the United States a more beautiful place became Lady Bird's true legacy. Throughout her time in the White House, she fought to make American cities more beautiful by planting flowers or adding park benches and by removing billboards and junkyards from the nation's highways.

...

Lady Bird herself saw her conservation and beautification work as deeply interwoven with President Johnson's Great Society agenda.

"Getting on the subject of beautification is like picking up a tangled skein of wool," she wrote in her diary on January 27, 1965. "All the threads are interwoven -- recreation and pollution and mental health, and the crime rate, and rapid transit, and highway beautification, and the war on poverty, and parks -- national, state and local. It is hard to hitch the conversation into one straight line, because everything leads to something else."

http://www.pbs.org/ladybird/shattereddreams/shattereddreams_report.html

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. RIP, Lady Bird

You did not have an easy life, married to LBJ, and you were gracious throughout.

[xchrom]

9. peace be with her family.

she will be planting texas wild flowers in heaven.