dead Lady Bird Johnson

[Guest iain]

^ Yeah, true. Now that I think hard at it, he could possibly live until 2008-2009. Now we just have to have a forum topic for Lady Johnson, the wife of the 36th president. She still isn't dead!!! She is 94 years old, though. She must pass away soon.

 

do you have any specific info on her state of health?

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

Now we just have to have a forum topic for Lady Johnson, the wife of the 36th president.

 

do you have any specific info on her state of health?

 

Iain, and for that matter, Kristen, why don't you check the Lady Bird Johnson thread, here.

 

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Edited May 9, 2006 by Magere Hein

[Phantom 2,531]

No health news, but this article made me smile.

 

Lady Bird Johnson in sports ticketing scam

 

 

hmmm a 94 yr old in a ticketing scam... makes me wonder if they got the names mixed up and were intending to report about my friend's gran. She cheats constantly when playing Shanghai Rummy

[maryportfuncity 10,630]

During an hour-long presentation, Robb volunteered details on many topics:

 

■ The health status of her mother, Lady Bird Johnson.

 

“Mother is 93,” Robb said, adding that she is “not in very good health.”

 

The former first lady suffers from macular degeneration and cannot see, Robb said. Also because of a stroke several years ago, she is unable to speak. Still, Robb and her sister read to their mother and talk to her.

 

Now, if only we could arrange some time consuming committments for her devoted family......

[Canadian Paul 97]

I was considering remarking on a prediction/preminition that I had about LBJ dying by month's end, but I didn't want to sound like either iain or a "post-whore" while doing it. Do we have a thread specifically for fun predictions (I checked around, and a lot of the "psychic" threads are ancient and don't really serve the purpose)? Should we start one? Does the lack of one indicate that we shouldn't? I know I've argued that people should only post interesting (with a broad definition) material, but if we had a thread where we all made predictions, would that be interesting? Maybe this isn't the proper place to be discussing this, but if I started a different thread to discuss starting a thread, it would sort of defeat the purpose (if the mods happen to know a better place for this, please move it there and bump the old thread to the top of the board).

 

Or is this whole forum just a sort of quasi-method of expressing our predictions?

 

Oh yeah and uh... since LBJ is the least healthy of my 8 remaining Rotten Deadpool picks, and since it'd be ideal to have one more hit before May 22, I'm thinking that blind and unable to talk means that her time may be up very soon...

[Tuber Mirum 125]

Not to mention the fact that it is my birthday next week.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

Not to mention the fact that it is my birthday next week.

Yeah, yeah , yeah......I already acknowledged it up in the other page in the birthday thread.

 

On another note the last posting in this topic by Mr.Not-A-Pomme was on May 11 which incidentally was the date of my dear grammama's death passing several years past.

[Banshees Scream 110]

I think the hands on Lady Bird Johnsons clock are moving very rapidly. Shouldn't be long.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

I think the hands on Lady Bird Johnsons clock are moving very rapidly. Shouldn't be long.

What does the lenght of the clock hands have to do with it? Isn't time the same no matter what?

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Isn't time the same no matter what?

Of course not. Try sitting for an hour on a hote stove rather than in a comfy chair.

 

regards,

Hein

[Bennett_Cerf 2]

I have been supplied with information regarding Mrs. Johnson; however, due to a confidentiality clause in my contract I am unable to say much beyond letting all you fine people know she is currently working on her holiday card list.

[Banshees Scream 110]

I have been supplied with information regarding Mrs. Johnson; however, due to a confidentiality clause in my contract I am unable to say much beyond letting all you fine people know she is currently working on her holiday card list.

 

 

Who the hell starts writing Christmas cards in May?

 

Now we know she's going senile.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

I have been supplied with information regarding Mrs. Johnson; however, due to a confidentiality clause in my contract I am unable to say much beyond letting all you fine people know she is currently working on her holiday card list.

Who the hell starts writing Christmas cards in May?

That's holiday card list, not Xmas card list.

Now we know she's going senile.

That list can't be so long, anyway. Almost everyone she knew is dead.

 

regards,

Hein

[Tuber Mirum 125]

"Holidays" is what the Americans call Christmas when they are trying to be politically correct.

 

Ironically enough, a state of affairs which doesn't arise all that often in reality.

[Banshees Scream 110]

"Holidays" is what the Americans call Christmas when they are trying to be politically correct.

 

Ironically enough, a state of affairs which doesn't arise all that often in reality.

 

A genius statement that is.

[hearsedriver 0]

Mrs. Johnson was listed as an honorary palbearer at the funeral of former TX Sen. Lloyd Bentsen last week. Her daugter Luci was in attendance, but it is unclear whether her mother was actually at the funeral.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

Would there soon be accompanuying spplied photos of the event? It was surprising to me and I would susopect to many that Lloyd went befgore Layd Bird but not entireely unexpected considering his terrible decline inb health in recente yearsd while hers has remained soemwwhat stableized.

[GracieJc8 3]

I have been able to find no photos or any kind of confirmation that Mrs. Johnson attended the Bentsen funeral. I did watch a clip of the funeral on the news and with all of the politicians and all there, it might as well have been a dress rehearsal for her own funeral!

[BrunoBrimley 86]

I have been able to find no photos or any kind of confirmation that Mrs. Johnson attended the Bentsen funeral. I did watch a clip of the funeral on the news and with all of the politicians and all there, it might as well have been a dress rehearsal for her own funeral!

Was she wearing something fashion-worthy?

[Banshees Scream 110]

Mrs. Johnson was listed as an honorary palbearer at the funeral of former TX Sen. Lloyd Bentsen last week. Her daugter Luci was in attendance, but it is unclear whether her mother was actually at the funeral.

 

The Wikipedia is even uncertain wheather she was there or not. Although her deteriating seems very clear...

[Handrejka 1,903]

Mrs. Johnson was listed as an honorary palbearer at the funeral of former TX Sen. Lloyd Bentsen last week. Her daugter Luci was in attendance, but it is unclear whether her mother was actually at the funeral.

 

Can someome explain the point of honourary pall bearers?

[Canadian Paul 97]

Mrs. Johnson was listed as an honorary palbearer at the funeral of former TX Sen. Lloyd Bentsen last week. Her daugter Luci was in attendance, but it is unclear whether her mother was actually at the funeral.

 

Can someome explain the point of honourary pall bearers?

 

If I'm not mistaken, it's sort of an honourary thing to be a pall bearer in general. In fact, in many cultures, the pall bearers themselves never actually touch the casket, that job is left to someone else. In the United States, I'm guessing that being an honourary pall bearer recognizes your connection to the deceased, but also the fact that you shouldn't be lifting him off the ground. A regular pall bearer would symbolize you lifting the deceased up from earth and bringing them to heaven. If you're not religious, it's just more of a tradition thing.

[hearsedriver 0]

According to the Smithsonian, Lady Bird Johnson is now the second longest lived former occupant of the White House after Bess Truman who died at 97 in 1982.

[Bennett_Cerf 2]

According to the Smithsonian, Lady Bird Johnson is now the second longest lived former occupant of the White House after Bess Truman who died at 97 in 1982.

You don't say! Now, it would also behoove you to inform us of the average age attained prior to demise of all of these women. While you are at it, would you be so kind as to run a comparison list of their ages as opposed to the age reached of women who are wed to Presidents of other nations? Gavin loves having these extra rare tidbits of information available at all times and if you supply it he shall be most eternally grateful.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

You don't say! Now, it would also behoove you to inform us of the average age attained prior to demise of all of these women.

 

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington Age at Death: 70

Abigail Smith Adams Age at Death: 73

Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson Age at Death: 33

Dolley Payne Todd Madison Age at Death: 81

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe Age at Death: 62

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams Age at Death: 77

Rachel Donelson Jackson Age at Death: 61

Hannah Hoes Van Buren Age at Death: 35

Anna Symmes Harrison Age at Death: 88

Letitia Christian Tyler Age at Death: 51

Julia Gardiner Tyler Age at Death: 69

Sarah Childress Polk Age at Death: 69

Margaret Smith Taylor Age at Death: 63

Abigail Powers Fillmore Age at Death: 55

Jane Means Appleton Pierce Age at Death: 57

Harriet Lane Johston-Hostess for Buchanan Age at Death: 73

Mary Todd Lincoln Age at Death: 63

Eliza McCardle Johnson Age at Death: 65

Julia Dent Grant Age at Death: 76

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes Age at Death: 57

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield Age at Death: 85

Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur Age at Death: 42

Caroline Lavina Scott Harrison Age at death: 60

Frances Folsom Cleveland Age at Death: 83

Ida Saxton McKinley Age at Death: 59

Edith Carow Roosevelt Age at Death: 87

Helen Herron Taft Age at Death: 82

Ellen Axson Wilson Age at Death: 54

Edith Galt Wilson Age at Death: 89

Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding Age at Death: 64

Grace Goodhue Coolidge Age at Death: 78

Lou Henry Hoover Age at Death: 68

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Age at Death: 78

Bess Trueman - above.

Mary "Mamie" Doud Eisenhower Age at Death: 82

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Age at Death: 64

 

 

Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson

Date of Birth: December 22, 1912

 

Thelma "Pat" Ryan Nixon Age at Death: 81

 

Betty Bloomer Warren Ford

Date of Birth: July 28, 1929

 

Rosalynn Smith Carter

Date of Birth: August 18, 1927

 

Nancy Davis Reagan

Date of Birth: July 6, 1921

 

Barbara Pierce Bush

Date of Birth: June 8, 1925

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Date of Birth: October 26, 1947

 

Laura Welch Bush

Date of Birth: November 4, 1946