Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, died Wednesday at her home in Austin, Texas. She was 94.
Aside from this role of support, Lady Bird Johnson felt the first lady should do something on her own, something that, as she said, "Makes your heart sing." For her, this was national beautification, a term she loathed, saying, "It sounds cosmetic and trivial." But the effort to plant flowers and otherwise make America's cities, parks and highways beautiful was not trivial.
Mr. Nag and I were just talking about her the other day when we were remembering the beautiful wildflowers on the Music Highway between Nashville and Memphis. These bursts of colour were a nice memory of my otherwise bleak visits to my mother who was ill with Alzheimer's down in Arkansas. These plantings made a positive impact on us.
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