“Women have always played a big part in my life,” Lyndon Johnson once said. For 29 years, the biggest part has been played by one woman—Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, the new First Lady of the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson, then a legislative aide in Austin with an eye on a political career, married Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor on Nov. 17, 1934, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in ...