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AUSTIN, Texas - Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.

Lady Bird Johnson returned home late last month after a week at Seton Medical Center, where she'd been admitted for a low-grade fever. Her husband died in 1973.

She died at her Austin home of natural causes about 4:18 p.m. CDT, said Elizabeth Christian, the spokeswoman. She said she was surrounded by family and friends.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19717425/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson

She was a class act. Her death is a very sad occasion for America.

Regit wrote:She was a class act. Her death is a very sad occasion for America.

That is about the only way to say it. She oozed class and southern charm. May she RIP.

Just out of curiosity, where did she get the name Lady Bird?

HurricaneBill wrote:Just out of curiosity, where did she get the name Lady Bird?

She got the name from a nurse when she was born and it stuck.

Regit wrote:

HurricaneBill wrote:Just out of curiosity, where did she get the name Lady Bird?

She got the name from a nurse when she was born and it stuck.

Her real name was Claudia. The nurse said she was "pretty as a lady bird" and the rest is history.

R.I.P. Lady Bird Johnson.