WOMEN: Life Without the Presence

"This is a new season of my life," said Lady Bird Johnson. "It's a strange new road I have traveled since Jan. 22." Lady Bird was at the wheel of her tan Lincoln, talking to TlME Correspondent Bonnie Angela and musing about her life without Lyndon Baines Johnson. Swinging the car through the silky bluebonnets and flaming Indian paintbrush massed on the banks of the Pedernales River, she tightened her grip on the wheel and forded the rushing stream. As she turned into the road that leads to the L.B.J. Ranch,...

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