alanbit, I had high hopes when I read your opening post...seems it's a bit much for folks to get out of the cynic's mode, these days...

Lyndon Johnson was married to Lady Bird who gave us a wonderful legacy of wildflowers all along the highways and that is a positive thing, imo: Mrs. Johnson's determination and focus on the beauty of native flowers inspired her to create the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 with her friend, actress Helen Hayes. Founded on Lady Bird's 70th birthday in 1982, the Center broke ground in 1983 on sixty acres of land east of Austin. In 1995, the Center moved to a meadow in southwest Austin and in 1998 was renamed after its founder. The mission of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is to educate people about the environmental necessity, economic value, and the natural beauty of native plants.

Let's see, who else...also Johnson and his Great Society... The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress, at times augmenting or amending, rapidly enacted Johnson's recommendations. Millions of elderly people found succor through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.