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A fresh check out Lady Parrot Johnson that upends her image as a plain Jane who was married for her money and mistreated by Lyndon. This Girl Bird worked silently behind the views through every advertising campaign, every disorder, and a seeking presidency as an integral strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and vital therapist. Lady Parrot grew up the daughter of any domineering dad and a cultured but delicate mother. When a high, pushy Texan known as Lyndon arrived in her life, she recognized what she wished: to leave the rural Texas of her years as a child and go through the world like her mother imagined, while climbing the mountain of ambition she inherited from her dad. She hitched Lyndon within weeks, and the great deal they struck was tacitly arranged upon in the courtship characters they exchanged: This highly gifted politician would take her away, and she'd save him from his weaknesses. The conventional story will go that Lyndon wedded Lady Bird for her money and demeaned her by flaunting his many affairs and this her legacy was guarding the country's wildflowers. But she was actually a full political partner throughout his ascent - the main one who swooped in to make the main element call to a donor, to keep the team united, to advertising campaign in hostile territory, and also to jump-start him out of his paralyzing darkness. And while others were shocked that she put up with his womanizing, she always recognized she had the upper hand. Lady Bird commenced the partnership by using part of her nest egg to help fund Lyndon's first politics campaign. Over and over, she held him from giving up, like the 1948 election when he was so immobilized with self-pity that she had to get the phone to solicit donations on his behalf. She was also the main one who got him out of bed when he was at a deep funk to go to the 1964 Democratic nominating convention.
