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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

20070611 Lady Bird Johnson passes away

July 1, 2007

Photo credit: Robert Knudsen /Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Lady Bird Johnson, wife of latePresident Lyndon B. Johnson,is pictured at the White Housein an Oct. 20, 1967 file photograph.

MSNBC is carrying an Associated Press story that Lady Bird Johnson has passed away.

Lady Bird Johnson passes away

Former first lady, 94, succumbs to natural causes, spokeswoman says

BREAKING NEWS

The Associated Press

Updated: 6:02 p.m. ET July 11, 2007

AUSTIN, Texas - Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.

Lady Bird Johnson returned home late last month after a week at Seton Medical Center, where she'd been admitted for a low-grade fever. Her husband died in 1973.

She died at her Austin home of natural causes about 4:18 p.m. CDT, said Elizabeth Christian, the spokeswoman. She said she was surrounded by family and friends.

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