The Lady Bird Diaries

I Am Jackie O

First Ladies

Race for the White House

The Presidents' Gatekeepers

All the Presidents' Wives

Oswald's Ghost

Inside the White House

Intimate Portrait

Backstage at the White House

The Store

The President, April 1968

The Making of the President: 1964

The New Met: Countdown to Curtain

Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was an American woman who served as the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson. She had previously served as second lady from 1961 to 1963 when her husband was vice president under John F. Kennedy.
Notably well educated for a woman of her era, Lady Bird proved a capable manager and a successful investor. After marrying Lyndon Johnson in 1934 when he was a political hopeful in Austin, Texas, she used a modest inheritance to bankroll his congressional campaign and then ran his office while he served in the Navy.
As first lady, Johnson broke new ground by interacting directly with Congress, employing her press secretary, and making a solo electioneering tour. She advocated beautifying the nation's cities and highways ("Where flowers bloom, so does hope"). The Highway Beautification Act was informally known as "Lady Bird's Bill". She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1984, the highest honors bestowed upon a U.S. civilian. Johnson has been consistently ranked in occasional Siena College Research Institute surveys as one of the most highly regarded American first ladies per historians' assessments.