BREAKING NEWS: Lady Bird Johnson Dead at 94

Thats a really good pic of you and Mrs. Johnson... (5.00 / 3)

NT

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by: Morter Forker @ Wed Jul 11, 2007 at 18:59:15 PM CDT

I'l remember it a long time (5.00 / 3)

A family friend of our who used to work with my father when he was a restauraunt manager in the 80's had been her personal chef for a number of years. Heck, I grew up near that ranch and still have relatives in Stonewall that are just a couple miles down the road.

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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman @ Wed Jul 11, 2007 at 20:03:52 PM CDT

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Enjoy Your Wild Flowers and Your Rest (5.00 / 4)

you have earned them and taught us all by your presence and grace.  You will be missed but your memory will live on when any of us see a wild flower bloom.

Doing My Part For The Left,Left Of The Rainbow

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by: refinish69 @ Wed Jul 11, 2007 at 20:10:28 PM CDT

Those are beautiful pictures of a wonderful woman (4.33 / 3)

A very graceful and polite First Lady.  A woman of class and style.

May she rest in peace.

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by: sonia @ Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 00:35:06 AM CDT

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Memories of Lady Bird (5.00 / 2)

I met Lady Bird twice.  Once while I was visiting the LBJ Library she arrived with two cars of personal guests.  She didn't mind that we followed her around in the museum and listened as she spoke about the exhibits. 

There was another occasion where she signed her book on wildflowers at a jewelry store at the NorthPark mall in Dallas. 

She had a reputation for speaking to tourists who took the tour of the Ranch.  She let the tourist busses run on the driveway of her home.

For years she maintained an office at the LBJ Library.  It is now open to the public.  It has an easy access to a balcony with a great view of the stadium, and of UT.  There is an orange desk and orange sofa.

There are those serving in office now who could learn a lot from Lady Bird Johnson.

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by: Tom Blackwell @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 16:43:43 PM CDT

A beautiful legacy (5.00 / 1)

And Important. Drought resistant plants preserved.

In a future made harsher by the GOP, preserving seeds of hardy plants will be very important for us all.

http://news.bbc.co.u...

'Doomsday' vault design unveiled
By Mark Kinver
Science and nature reporter, BBC News

The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.

The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.

The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change.

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The Norwegian government is paying the $5m (£2.5m) construction costs of the vault, which will have enough space to house three million seed samples.

The collection and maintenance of the collection is being organised by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which has responsibility of ensuring the "conservation of crop diversity in perpetuity".

"We want a safety net because we do not want to take too many chances with crop biodiversity," said Cary Fowler, the Trust's executive secretary.

"Can you imagine an effective, efficient, sustainable response to climate change, water shortages, food security issues without what is going to go in the vault - it is the raw material of agriculture."

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by: ProveOurDemocracy @ Mon Jul 16, 2007 at 10:25:11 AM CDT