A True Lady Passes
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Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 05:43 PM [GMT-6]

Lady Bird Johnson died this afternoon in Austin at age 94. She was the first First Lady I remember as actually doing something, and, oh, did she do things. Thanks to her, Texas has the most beautiful highway rights-of-way in the nation during wildflower season, and all states enjoy prettier highways than they might otherwise have had it not been for her active advocacy for the Highway Beautification Bill passed in 1965.

She was one of the first to bring environmentalism to the masses, but she managed to do it without becoming a harpy.

She will be missed as a true Texas institution, but her legacy will bloom again each spring. She's got a great view of those flowers, now.

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Passing by the TDCJ-ID units outside of Colorado City this afternoon ..... saw the flags at half-mast, and wondered away ..... now I know ..... she was a class act, and someone of which all Texans - and Americans - could be proud.

Posted by: Jeff at July 11, 2007 05:57 PM

Eric, following-up that last comment of mine ..... the flags were lowered for former Texas Supreme Court Justice John Hill.

Posted by: Jeff at July 12, 2007 08:11 AM

I didn't realize he'd died. I don't really know anything about him.

Posted by: Eric at July 12, 2007 08:21 AM

A true lady, indeed!

Posted by: gwynne at July 12, 2007 12:12 PM

Yes, a true lady. No one will follow in her footsteps. You don't want to step on the wildflowers. Living some 20 miles from one of her special wildflower arenas has been a blessing for my wife and I.

Posted by: Danny Lunsford at July 12, 2007 01:15 PM
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