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Thank you, Al and Nita, for these gracious words about Mrs. Johnson. We are all very much in debt to her for her efforts to make our highways, if not always beautiful, at least not as unsightly as they might have become were it not for those efforts.
She was born here in East Texas, at Karnack (about 30 miles from our home). She graduated from high school at Marshall, Texas before going on to Austin and the University of Texas where she met Lyndon Johnson. She never lived in East Texas again, but never forgot the good things about her heritage, especially the beauty of our springtime.
She was a true Southern lady and at the same time a strong woman who made a difference for the better in our nation and in the world.
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