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By Scott Herron & Ken 1 Schwartz
Washington
12 July 2007
 


A former first lady of the United States -- Lady Bird Johnson -- has died. She was 94. A family spokeswoman says the widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson died Wednesday at her home in Austin, Texas of natural causes. During her husband's presidency 2, Mrs. Johnson urged Congress to pass the Highway Beautification Bill, and she pushed to improve the look of the nation's capital. The couple had two daughters. Mrs. Johnson was admitted to the hospital last week with a fever and other undisclosed symptoms. VOA's Deborah Block has more.






Lady Bird Johnson (2002 photo)


Lady Bird Johnson (2002 photo)



Lady Bird Johnson's lasting 3 legacy 4 was her public grace in the face of tragedy, her tireless efforts to make America more beautiful and her steadfast 5 support of her husband's political career.


She was born Claudia Alta Taylor on December 22, 1912, and got her nickname as an infant when a nurse said she was "purty [pretty] as a lady bird."


The rancher's daughter studied art and journalism 6 at the University of Texas and graduated in 1934, the same year she met Mr. Johnson.


"I think we both knew that we were better together, than we were -- would be -- apart," she said in an interview with the television program 20/20.


Mrs. Johnson is credited with persuading her husband to support the early childhood development program known as "Head Start," and she campaigned with him for the war on poverty.


Mrs. Johnson was riding in a motorcade with her husband in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 when an assassin killed President John F. Kennedy.


Soon afterwards, Mrs. Johnson stood next to her husband aboard Air Force One as he took the oath of office as president.


"I felt like I was walking onto a stage for a part I had never rehearsed, hadn't even read," she said. 


While President Johnson struggled with the Vietnam War, civil rights and social upheaval 7, Mrs. Johnson began her crusade to beautify America.


Lyndon Johnson left office in 1969 and died four years later. After her husband's death, Mrs. Johnson worked for environmental causes.




n.视野,知识领域
  • Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
  • Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持
  • The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
  • We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。
n.遗产,遗赠;先人(或过去)留下的东西
  • They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  • He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
adj.固定的,不变的,不动摇的;忠实的;坚贞不移的
  • Her steadfast belief never left her for one moment.她坚定的信仰从未动摇过。
  • He succeeded in his studies by dint of steadfast application.由于坚持不懈的努力他获得了学业上的成功。
n.新闻工作,报业
  • He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师,可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
  • He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。
n.胀起,(地壳)的隆起;剧变,动乱
  • It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱。
  • The country has been thrown into an upheaval.这个国家已经陷入动乱之中。
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22-oxacalcitriol
alternating copolymer
alternating electric current
annand
Anneta
aoristic
Atalaia
blendind ocatne curve
blue heating
capital formation instruments
cautels
celadon flak
Centrale Bank van Suriname
coast down
coded stop
contractual distribution system
core setting
crowstone
Cuautepec
davern
depositional magnetization
doinks
doubly straight line
Dracocephalum
drepane
dual in - line
dynamic ice detector
elovson
endocrinotropic
epidemic hepatitis, epidemic jaundice
epigallocatechin
equianharmonic cubic
evaporated liquor
gear forming machine
genus Culcita
Germanifying
grafting
green anaconda
Hastenbeck
high stretch yarn
high-water control
hinge type flattop chain
hydraulic retaining structure
injection ram
injection transformer
internal security force
Italianist
joseph rudyard kiplings
knock under to
kobaltkies (linnaeite)
lawpca
lyrism
Makhad
malignant catarrh of cattle
maritime equatorial air mass
Matancilla
mechanical gage
mess with someone
metal electrode welding
mid-variety
Mingan
mispleadings
monilethricosis
multielement insulator
nematophore
noncomittally
Nonington
octahedral plane
odd bladed propeller
overdensity
partial remainder
Parvaim
Pedregal, Pta.do
peplo
pinionists
projective topology
pseudanthias thompsoni
rational appeal
relimed
riblets
Rubicon R.
screw sth up
sea-farer
semen melo
session management
Sikalinga
smithereens
solid borer
spray rig
Stegonia
sub-licenses
sunken road
tap-to-tap time
toe load of fastening
tohou
transovum transmission
Tserkovishche
Uncle Albert
usufruct of immovable property
vowelized
william le baron jennies
zurbriggen