Lestat, the vampire narrator of Anne Rice's most recent book, Blood Canticle, begins the novel with a harangue against its readers.
Lyndon Johnson died in 1973, four years after the Johnsons left the White House. The longest-living first lady in history was Bess Truman, who was 97 when she died in 1982. Johnson was born Claudia Alta Taylor in 1912. A nurse called her Lady Bird, a nickname she hated, but it stuck, reports CBS News' Harry Smith. The daughter of a Texas businessman, Johnson grew up to be one of the country's most influential environmentalists.
Johnson, Richard W. (1827-1897) â also known as R. W. Johnson â of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born near Smithland, Livingston County, Ky., February 7, 1827. Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Governor of Minnesota, 1881.