YORBA LINDA : Lady Bird Johnson Visits Nixon Library
Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, strolled through the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace on Sunday, examining the exhibits and adding her namesake rose to the gardens.
During her three-hour visit, Johnson examined photographs of her late husband, which are included in 1960 and 1968 exhibits in the museum, spokesman Kevin Cartwright said. She stopped in an alcove that contains a replica of a White House sitting room, and she recognized the china, Cartwright said.
After touring the museum and the adjacent wood-frame house where Nixon was born, Johnson stopped to chat with some Yorba Linda Girl Scouts, Cartwright said.
The former First Lady watched as the girls planted three Lady Bird Johnson roses in the First Lady’s Garden, where Pat Nixon’s favorite roses, irises and herbs grow. The Lady Bird Johnson rose, an unusual orange hybrid from Tyler, Tex., was named for her when she was in the White House.
Johnson is in Southern California for today’s opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
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