Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
The first lady is, and always will be, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Claudia Johnson, 1912-2007, [Lady Bird], First Lady (Lyndon Baines Johnson), Quoted in U. S. News & World Report, March 9, 1987
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Describing Texas Senator Robert Kruger who had been appointed to Bestsen's seat and was having trouble getting elected in his own right. Kruger lost his bid for election.
He was reacting to President Donald Trump's demands of Personal Loyalty of his appointees. Trump was a businessman who ran provate (not public) corporations where it was not unusual for the owner to demand personal loyalty of all his key employees. He had not historical knowledge of experience with public service in America where, unlike campaigns, all officials take an oath of loalty to the Constitution and the nation and not to the President. Trump had fired the then FBI Director who was investigationg his campaign for illegal contacts with the Russians, which Trump regarded as an act of disloyalty, especially when the Director refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump.
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Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson was an American socialite and First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963 to 1969. She had previously served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
