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Muddling Through. As a girl, Luci often seemed the victim of a younger-sibling complex, which she assuaged with the usual attention-getting gambits of childhood and adolescence. It was not a conventional upbringing for either Luci or her older sister Lynda Bird, now 22, because of frequent separations from their parents. Throughout the "deprivileged" years, as the sisters call them, Father was in perpetual political motion in Washington and Texas while Mother had the family interests to mind; until Luci was eleven, even her school year was divided between Austin and Washington. Most summers she went to camp...
...result may be Texan-presidential in scale, but in detail the wedding bears all the diverse and diverting hallmarks of Luci Johnson. The bride-to-be is at once gay and fey and deeply religious. She displays Johnson traits in abundance: she is strong-willed and sensitive, voluble and introspective, fiercely loyal to her family yet irrepressibly independent. Lady Bird describes her younger daughter as both a "sprite" and a "philosopher." Lyndon Johnson once said: "I have known this little ruler all her life. She entered the world with a commanding voice and has been taking over ever since." Luci...
...eyes that set her apart are a deep and striking blue. Endowed as well with lustrous black hair, flashing smile and a milkmaid's complexion, Luci is undeniably comely-more so than most of her photographs indicate. Not entirely by accident, the Secret Service code name for her is Venus; Lynda, more studious and serious, is Velvet; Lady Bird is Victoria...
...foibles, if she played the piano loudly while Mother was trying to give an interview, if she teased photographers hip-deep into the Atlantic City surf in order to take her picture, Luci's capers never became a public problem. Nellie Grant's flirtations were so well noted that her mother packed her off to Europe at 16-only to have Nellie return with a dandified English worshiper in tow. Alice Roosevelt (who will attend this week's wedding) scandalized Washington 60 years ago by smoking cigarettes in public and riding horseback in breeches...
...Pudgy and sometimes petulant as a bobbysoxer, Luci has evolved into a slim, articulate, engaging girl-woman who has been able to weather the limelight with considerable poise and-it seems to some-greater relish than her pleas for privacy would suggest. The impression she conveys obviously concerns her. Though she only turned 19 on July 2, she abhors the stereotype of the teen-age marriage, points out bravely that her own and Pat's ages average out to 21. On this score her mother, who was 21 and a college graduate before she married, says reassuringly: "I think...