‘A miasma of trouble hangs over everything,’ writes Lady Bird Johnson 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 5 1967)


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(Thursday, January 5, 1967; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — With the Vietnam War dragging on with no end in sight, First Lady Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, wife of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, wrote today in her diary, “A miasma of trouble hangs over everything.”