Lady Bird Johnson

LADY BIRD JOHNSON Claudia Alta Taylor was born in a country mansion near Karnack, Texas, she was given the nickname "Lady Bird" when she was just a child; and by this name she is still known today. Her mother, Minnie Pattillo Taylor, died when Claudia (Lady Bird) was only five, so she was raised by her father, her aunt, and the family servants. From her father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, she learned numerous things about the …

…expanded her committee and it became a nation wide organization. She also took a highly active part in her husband's war-on-poverty program. When the Presidential term ended, the Johnsons returned to Texas, where he died in 1973. Today Lady Bird leads a life devoted to her husband's memory, her children, and seven grandchildren. She still supports causes dear to her like the National Wildflower Research Center, which she founded in 1982, and The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.