Word: johnson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public; 400 more had been appointed at large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) One step removed from Houston, but hardly less actively involved, were the roughly 130,000 women who had participated in the long delegate-selection process leading up to the conference?part of America's real majority: the 110 million women...
...precisely coiffed, dressed with impeccable conservatism, ankles neatly crossed, sitting side by side at the opening session in the Sam Houston Coliseum to promote the Equal Rights Amendment. "We don't look like bomb throwers, and we don't think like that either," said Lady Bird Johnson. Yet there they were: Lyndon Johnson's widow, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter...
...Lady Bird Johnson, joining the women's movement was a new commitment. "People whom I respect and believe in and like were part of it," she said later from her ranch in Johnson City, Texas. "Particularly my two daughters - they thought it was right." How would Lyndon have taken it all? Replied Lady Bird: "In one of his last speeches, Lyndon said, 'Change is not our enemy.' I believe he would be welcoming all this...
What next? Lady Bird Johnson summed it up: "If I were an elected official, I would take due note of their earnestness, their enthusiasm-and their numbers...
...seven-judge panel awarded Johnson the $500 prize, which recognizes outstanding presentation of information on cardiac and arterial disease, for an article entitled "Arteries: An Owner's Manual," that appeared in this February's Harvard Magazine...