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CBS News Lady Bird Johnson, first lady and diarist In 1993 Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, welcomed "Sunday Morning"'s Charles Kuralt to the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas, where they talked about the former first lady's legacy. "When you come right down to it," Kuralt asked, "it's a good deal of trouble to plant wildflowers in great abundance – what good do they do?" "Just joy," she replied, "and joy is a component of life, or should be." Lady Bird Johnson in 1993. CBS News But Mrs. Johnson's famous commitment to "beautification" was about much more...

In the exhaustively researched “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight” by Julia Sweig, we learn just how much Lady Bird did, quietly.

CBS News This week on "Sunday Morning" (March 14) Host: Jane Pauley Since the COVID pandemic began, one in three Americans has had reduced quality sleep. Correspondent Susan Spencer pulls back the covers on how pandemic stress is among the factors affecting people's already-tortured relationship with shuteye. Spencer talks with Drew Ackerman, a lifelong chronic insomniac whose storytelling podcast, "Sleep With Me," lulls listeners to slumberland; and with professors Sharon Bowman, Jennifer Martin and Tiffany Yip about the importance of sleep hygiene, and the effects of reduced sleep on chroni...

CBS News Book excerpt: "Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight" Read an excerpt below, and don't miss correspondent Mo Rocca's interview with Julia Sweig on "CBS Sunday Morning" March 14! Random House The Surrogate Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a party is not to our party alone, but to the nation, and indeed to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom. So let us not be petty when our cause is so great, let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our nation's future is...

In Lady Bird Johnson’s Secret Diaries, a Despairing President and a Crucial Spouse A new book reveals how the former first lady not only provided a spouse’s emotional ballast but also served as an unrivaled counselor who helped persuade Lyndon B. Johnson to stay in office. Lady Bird Johnson in 1961. The first lady kept a diary, but she ordered that a part of it be kept secret for years after her death.Credit...Associated Press Published March 11, 2021Updated March 16, 2021 WASHINGTON — He had been president for only two years, but that night in fall 1965 he had had enough. Lynd...