Okay.I am officially disgusted that even on DO Ladybird Johnson's passing is hardly noteworthy.

But people can spend hours ranting about a Fox News inspired fake conspiracy between our candidates.There hasn't even been outrage that the MSM isn't covering this memorial.This really torks me.We have had amongst our midst a truly great lady, a pioneer for Civil Rights and the Environment and her passing is unimportant.No wonder we can't make any progress.We don't give credit to those who sacrificed and really made a difference.

Quiet is probably not the best option, but there are worse possibilities that aren't unlikely around here.

Without Ladybird is is doubtful the Civil Rights Act would have passed . But whatever.Knowledge of history is scant on DU.

in Master of the Senate. It seems to me that Lyndon Johnson didn't treat her too well, and ordered her around a lot. Not a great way to remember her, but that's what I got.

Helen Thompson will get more attention when she passes.

100 sports logo avatars and I personally see no relation between sports and politics, except that Karl Rove and people with bags of money to burn parlayed *'s ownership of the Rangers having made him "known" in Texas into a governorship.

that the media cover this! And It is too late now!

Lady Bird, for all the good she has done, was First Lady.
It's not a formal office.

paid or wasn't formal trivializes her efforts? Sheesh.Jackie O got more credit and all she dis was redecorate the WH! And look pretty!

And Lady Bird was first lady, not President, which might well account for the lower number
of threads.

You evidently were not around in 1963.

to be expected.Nothing was tacky about my remark.Jackie's cheif contribution,as First Lady, WAS redecorating and looking pretty.

I started the LBN thread when I heard the news.

the Kucinich reaction and the conspiracy and Ladybird doesn't even rate a mention!

as did several other DU'ers who posted here throughout the service.

I am glad some watched.

And has lived a life out of the spotlight since LBJ's death 34 years ago. I think that DU has many members who aren't old enough to know much about her.
Hopefully there will be more coverage tomorrow when she is laid to rest at the ranch.

They're keeping America beautiful, still. Godspeed.

But, hey, she was only a woman, saracat. :sarcasm:

in the efforts of our great leaders, and she was one, elected or not! We would rather bitch about stupidity and that irks me.Tribute should be given to those who went before. JMHO.

But I benefit from her efforts every day. When I see flowers along the highway, I think of Lady Bird Johnson. She was a fine woman, and being married to LBJ was no picnic, so she persevered. When her son-in-law was a Virginia Senator she could be counted on to support Virginia's Democratic party.

I'm sorry I don't make a tribute and blog to her earlier -not that many would read it, but I understand how you feel about this great lady who deserves a tribute.

A lot of skeptics then, but a wonderful legacy.

to have an older brother who went to Vietnam and got his call up letter on December 15, 1966.

So there's a lot I remember about that administration.

I went to many funerals during my high school years & after.


My BIL committed suicide several years after. He couldn't live with what he saw and was ordered to do.

cousins, fathers, uncles, at risk. Those were the days when you said goodbye and didn't know if a guy would come home in a box. Nobody was unaffected.

But Lady Bird Johnson did not start the war and she did a lot of good things on her own. Head Start was her project before highway beautification.

R.I.P., Lady Bird.

son of a bitch for all those years.

(sometimes if i can't think of anything nice to say--i don't say anything at all. but i decided to make an exception considering your post)

Those are the tradeoff, I imagine. No one else has managed to do squat since.Odd how that works.Maybe ya gotta be an SOB to make progress!

It was a wonderful funeral. Her kids and grandkids were terrific as was Bill Moyers. Did anyone notice how warmly the choir responded to Bill Clinton when he walked by. You have to admit that he is pure magic!

but that would have been like Bill!

But she's still not very good at walking in women's shoes. I respect that.

Administration are far over-shadowed by Vietnam. Sad, because the man could have have been remembered for the Great Society programs. But for me, the name is soaked with the blood of the Vietnamese and Americans who died.

I personally don't mind that others feel a need to eulogize when someone dies, but I don't, nor do I see why anyone should care if I don't.

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accomplishments.Just because she was married to a President you didn't like doesn't mean she shouldn'r t be paid tribute for her own efforts.It is a shame to diminish them that way.I hope I am never judged by my husbands accomplishments or his lacks.

If you want a lot of responses, say something mean about her. That will start a fight, and everyone will chime in.

To be honest, even though I live in Austin (where the story is of course very big), I don't know much about her role in the White House. The things I know about her personally are either about her support for wildflowers and highway beautification, her family radio station, and a rather unpleasant comment she made not too long ago about the social spending programs her husband started. I don't have the exact quote, but it was along the lines of "We overestimated the people we were trying to help, and their desire to work."

I never thought of her as a liberal champion, and knowing her radio station, I never really thought of her as a liberal. She was pleasant enough when it came to wildflowers, and seemed basically a nice person. She was a large figure here in central Texas, but mostly because of her Wildflower Center, and her marriage to LBJ. If she played a great role in Civil Rights and the environment (aside from wildflowers), I'm just ignorant of the story. All I've heard her praised for were "beautification programs."

Maybe you could start a thread listing her accomplishments instead of lamenting the lack of awareness of her? That might inspire more informed comments. I just don't much about her, and I'm a history-minded person who lives near where she did.

job than I could hope to.

I never knew her role in starting and nurturing Head Start, nor her courage in campaigning throughout the South when her husband was being reviled as a "nigger-lover".

In her long widowhood she was much more than just another wealthy grandmother who doted on her descendents.

Lady Bird Johnson deserves to join the pantheon of great First Ladies, those who were equal partners in their marriages to US presidents and who made contributions of their own.

Rest in Peace, Lady Bird. Thank you for your service to our nation.

Hekate

I am incredibly disgusted too. Especially that CNN decides to rerun a weeks old program on
bad food. Mostly because I am so torked at CNN right now anyway. I'm very bitter about
the constant insults, slanders and goddamn lies to wards dems and their complete failure to
cover her death this week and now on a slow news day can't even bring themselves to cover this
event.

Talk about insult!

That's what I'm talking about. May these media whores spend all of eternity in Purgatory
watching reruns of their own ass kissing shows.

wouldn't it have been kind of cool if Yoko had been there?

and deprived Julian of his fathers inheritance, I have no respect for her. I don't think she has enough dignity or moral imperative to attend such a great ladys memorial.

and I really like Cynthia Lennon, but Yoko is not only an integral aspect of the 60s - as was Lady Bird - but Yoko did and said all the right things after John was killed. Her comments prevented a lot of vandalism and anger.

If people had taken Lady Bird's and John's messages to heart more quickly, the 60s and 70s might not have been so bad.

We need Yoko right now.

The transportation contracts went to SeaLand and the reconstituted milk bore the Formost label. Lady Bird held stock in both companies. Another Texas-MIC piggy bank operation.

When? Guess Canadians are too busy buzzing about Conrad Black's conviction. DANG! I liked her!

I've been listening to accounts and obits on NPR since shortly after she died. I'm not sure what other parts of the MSM have been ignoring her.

Frankly, I don't really care much if DU thinks, say, a Senator's diaper 7 years ago is more important-- DU isn't the whole world. Not even a small part of the real world.

DU has its place, but it's not always a good place.

have been the guy from LA playing with call girls? (I've been away for a couple of days and this hasn't come up on CNN for some reason.) :evilgrin:

paying extra if she changed his diaper. Some guys get kinky in whorehouses-- who'd ever a' thunk that?

But, all this seems to have happened years ago and the only thing really unusual about the scandal is a Republican having sex with an adult woman.

usually the ones caught doing the kinkiest things. I can't remember a Dem ever having to pay for sex, unless Mills was paying the stripper Fanne Fox when they fell in the Potomac eons ago.

So does it look like he'll lose his seat? Another Dem senator would be very nice to have.

seems there's a lot of discussion down there about how a Demcratic governor will replace a Republican Senator if he steps down. Very dicey at the moment.

Whoever takes over, probably won't talk too much about "values" for a while.

show the funeral again? We've had house guests so I missed it.