Lady Bird Johnson Ailing, Is Hospitalized
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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson has been hospitalized, a family friend said.
George Christian, who was President Johnson’s press secretary and is a family friend, said Mrs. Johnson was in the intensive care unit at an Austin hospital.
He said that Mrs. Johnson, 89, was at her home when she became ill. He said he did not know why she was taken to the hospital.
Mrs. Johnson was admitted to the same hospital in 1999 after fainting at her home; she also underwent cataract surgery that year. In 1993, she suffered what was described as a minor stroke.
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