Lady Bird Johnson: 1912 – 2007

7 Responses to “Lady Bird Johnson: 1912 – 2007”

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   I wonder what history would read if you replaced GWB with LBJ?

   Lady Bird was a major stock holder of Brown &Root which was bought out by and became Haliburton in which Lady Bird held major interest to this day in. It was a medium size construction company in Texas. They got all of the contracts to build all of the bases, roads, and airports in Vietnam. Not mentioning that Houston Control (exact duplicate of cape canavarel sp.), was built by B&R and ordered by Johnson. It soon became the largest construction company in the USA.

   In 1962, Brown & Root sold out to Halliburton, a booming oil-well construction-and-services firm, and in the following years the conglomerate grew spectacularly. According to Dan Briody, who has written a book on the subject, Brown & Root was part of a consortium of four companies that built about eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by the Army during the Vietnam War. At the height of the resistance to the war, Brown & Root became a target of protesters, and soldiers in Vietnam derided it as Burn & Loot.

   Posted by Tom James | Thursday, July 12, 2007, 9:16 am
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   what a great lady.

   Posted by linda b | Thursday, July 12, 2007, 1:42 pm
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   My mom worked at her radio station!

   Well…technically, it was her daughter, Lynda’s, because Mrs. Johnson gave it to Lynda after Lynda married Chuck. The station wasn’t in the Robb name for a while though, because Chuck couldn’t own a radio station while running for office at the time. Mrs. Johnson was a lovely woman.

   Also, she put up with LBJ and, at the risk of being coarse, the shenanigans that man pulled…well, they are not printable here.

   Posted by Genevieve | Thursday, July 12, 2007, 9:30 pm
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   why is the whole LBJ story not being told i was in the us marines
   and we called Mrs LBJ S**t Bird Johnson

   Posted by george a machado | Sunday, July 15, 2007, 1:26 pm
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   Um, george, I have edited you post. Such language is not acceptable.

   Posted by vjp | Sunday, July 15, 2007, 2:02 pm
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   please do not blame lady bird for presidents johnsons vietnam, it was his to win but he did not, lady bird is one of the more likeable frist ladies, goes back to a time when frist ladies understood what the job was suppport the president, not be president[ hillary].

   Posted by JACK STILES | Monday, July 16, 2007, 8:31 am

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