Friends, Family Remember Lady Bird

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Source: Associated Press

By KELLEY SHANNON

(AP) Jennifer Robb, left, places her head on the shoulder of her sister Lucinda Robb as she holds her...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lady Bird Johnson's wit, wisdom and love of beauty - in nature, in children and in democracy - were remembered Saturday as family, friends and presidents bade farewell at her funeral.

"It is unthinkable to me that she's gone. She was so much a part of our landscape, so much a part of our lives," Bill Moyers, a television host and former aide to President Lyndon Johnson, said at the service.


Jennifer Robb, left, places her head on the shoulder of her sister Lucinda Robb as she holds her daughter Madeline Florio as they pause at the casket of their grandmother, former first lady Lady Bird Johnson inside the LBJ Library & Museum Friday, July 13, 2007 in Austin, Texas. The widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson died Wednesday of natural causes at her Austin home. She was 94. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, Pool)

The former first lady died Wednesday at age 94 of natural causes.

Along with her devotion to preserving wildflowers and native plants, Lady Bird Johnson worked tirelessly for her husband's political career, Moyers said. He recalled her marathon stumping through the South during the 1964 presidential campaign amid anger that raged at Lyndon Johnson over his signing of the Civil Rights Act.

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