LBJ and Lady Bird in love:

Archive releases courtship letters

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Archivist Claudia Anderson handles some of the love letters exchanged between Lyndon Johnson, then a 26-year-old congressional aide, and Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor, then 21, at the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas Wednesday in Austin. Associated Press

AUSTIN—Days after the congressional aide met the University of Texas history and journalism graduate in Austin, he boldly proposed marriage.

Claudia Alta Taylor, the 21-year-old rancher’s daughter known to her friends as “Bird,” was intrigued but thought Lyndon Johns...

Published: 02/14/2013