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• Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, wife of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), loved the TV Western series “Gunsmoke” and never missed an episode. She excused herself from dinner one evening, explaining that she had a “previous engagement.” She was later disappointed to find that James Arness, who played Matt Dillon on the program, Republican. • Lady Bird was unsuccessful in her attempts to get LBJ to lose weight. One night she was awakened by the sound of clinking metal, and discovered it was coming from the kitchen, where she caught LBJ red-handed with a metal spoon and a bowl of pudding. The next day, LBJ instructed an aide to go buy him a wooden spoon. • In 1964, Lady Bird was travelling from Cleveland to Washington, DC. Her secretary called ahead to a Howard Johnson’s restaurant to make reservations for Mrs. Johnson. After they left, a reporter interviewed the waitress. “How did it feel to serve Mrs. Johnson?” “I was pretty nervous,” replied the waitress. “Have you ever met a First Lady before?” inquired the reporter. “First Lady?” cried the waitress. “That was Mrs. Lyndon Johnson? I thought it was Mrs. Howard Johnson!” • In 1967, LBJ was giving a speech which dragged on as the audience grew restless. Lady Bird slipped him a note that said, “Close soon.” LBJ held the paper up, then read it aloud. After the laughter died, he continued his speech as usual. • Due to a mix-up, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower received an engraved invitation to attend their own inaugural ball in 1953. Laughing, Mamie asked Ike what she should do about it. “Turn it down,” he said. “Tell them we’ve got another engagement.”

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SEQUOYAH (cont’d) • Soon Sequoyah’s entire tribe could read and write their own language. As a result, the history, culture, and spiritual practices of the tribe were preserved. • By 1828 the tribe was publishing the “Cherokee Phoenix,” the first national bi-lingual newspaper, and the first Indian newspaper printed in the U.S. Later they started printing religious pamphlets, educational materials, and legal documents. • Shortly afterwards, Sequoyah was forced with the rest of his tribe off their ancestral homelands in the Southeast onto a reservation in Oklahoma, when Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 demanded that Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations relocate. Over 4,000 people died of starvation, disease, and injury along the Trail of Tears during the forced migration. • Sequoyah eventually constructed a cabin for himself near present-day Sallisaw, Oklahoma, which still stands and is open to the public. • He later became a tribal leader and an envoy to Washington, D.C. In recognition of his contributions, the Cherokee Nation awarded Sequoyah a silver medal and an annual stipend, which his widow continued to receive even after his death in 1845. • Today, the language is spoken and written by an estimated 20,000 Cherokee in northeastern Oklahoma and another 5,000 near the Qualla Reservation in North Carolina. • Sam Houston, governor of Texas, said, “Your invention of the alphabet is worth more to your people than two bags full of gold in the hands of every Cherokee.” Sequoyah is thought to be the first person ever to create a written language on his own. He brought his people the gift of literacy and communication without educators, books, or cost.