Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" JohnsonDecember 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007
Former First Lady of the United States. If you want to know who
really killed
JFK, look no further. She didn't actually bloody her own hands, of course. Nor did she tell her husband LBJ what she was up to.
Tired of hearing the vice president's constant bitching about playing second fiddle, she hired a guy who hired a guy, which culminated in that dreadful day for the republic.
There she is on the left, Lyndon's right, just below his swearing hand. Though personally mortified at the death of another woman's husband, it was her job to stand by her own man, wherever that took her in the moral universe.
She settled into her new role comfortably.
As First Lady, Mrs. Johnson broke new ground by interacting directly with Congress, employing her own press secretary, and making a solo electioneering tour. She was an advocate for beautifying the nation's cities and highways ("Where flowers bloom, so does hope").
Alas, Lyndon would only be a one term president, not including the portion where his boss got his head almost blown off. "Tricky
Dick" Nixon and partner in crime Thelma would come next, but it's not her birthday.
First Wives Club, date unknown. Ladybird is either in hell, in heaven if God was a co-conspirator, or holding the camera. From the left, Rosalynn "not quite Playmate material" Carter, Barbara "beautiful mind" Bush, Betty Ford in the Center ["hic"], Nancy "Mommie" Reagan, and of course the devil herself.
Fun fact: Coccinellidae are known as ladybugs in North America. 