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Lady Bird Johnson influenced LBJ’s key policies by introducing him to leading women thinkers LBJ and Lady Bird believed in the moral case for government intervention, until Lady Bird met a woman who challenged her. By Julia Sweig The following is an excerpt from Julia Sweig’s new book, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight,” which is based the former First Lady’s own words from over 123 hours of audio diaries, most of it never before heard. In the spring of 1964, while on the lecture circuit in Washington, Barbara Ward took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., sipped tea with...

April is the month that could be called the outside month, a month of planting and growing and caring for our Earth. April 22 is Earth Day which started in

10 New Books We Recommend This Week April 15, 2021 Some readers are waiting for the next installment in Robert Caro’s multivolume Lyndon Johnson biography as avidly as George R. R. Martin fans eager for “The Winds of Winter” to arrive at last. (Some, I suppose, are at the edge of their seats waiting for both.) If you are among them, why not bide your time with Julia Sweig’s substantial new biography of Johnson’s wife, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight”? Our reviewer, Mimi Swartz, calls it “a book in the Caro mold,” telling the story of America through its subject. Th...

The wildflowers are out along Texas highways, the annual blanketing of bluebonnets, buttercups and prairie verbena that enliven our daily journeys, and serve as a reminder to nourish that side of ourselves that’s drawn to the beauty of this world. “The bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man,” Lady Bird Johnson once said, explaining why she chose to make beautification her priority as First Lady, even in times ravaged by conflict,...

Image zoom From left: President John F. Kennedy and a bouquet-carrying Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Love Field in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, on a campaign tour with Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (rear) | Credit: Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Many remember the weekend of Nov. 22, 1963, because of the national horror that unfolded: President John F. Kennedy shot in the head in his limo while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas wit...