Luci Baines Johnson (born July 2, 1947) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the younger daughter of U.S. President

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...

and his wife, former First Lady

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Early years

Born in

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, Johnson has an older sister

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. Johnson's first name was originally spelled "Lucy"; she changed the spelling in her teens as a rebellion towards her parents. As her parents both had the initials LBJ, they named their two daughters to have these initials also. Although her father was a member of the

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, her mother was an Episcopalian, and she and her older sister,

, were raised as Episcopalians. Johnson converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eighteen, when she requested and received

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. Johnson had been baptized with water and in the name of the

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at five months old by an Episcopal priest in Austin, Texas. Her rebaptism caused protests from leading figures in the Episcopal Church, which made headlines, as the Roman Catholic teaching does not require converts who are already baptized to receive baptism a second time. She was sixteen when President

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was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Johnson heard of the assassination while attending a Spanish class at the National Cathedral School. She was unaware whether her father had been injured as well but realized he had been sworn in as the 36th President of the United States when

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agents showed up on her school campus a few hours later. She later attended

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but dropped out in 1966 as the school prohibited married students (Johnson married her first husband in August 1966). In 1966, she learned to cook from Zephyr Wright, the White House chef for the Johnson family.

Career

Since 1993, Johnson has been the Chairman of the Board and manager of LBJ Asset Management Partners, a

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, as well as Chairman of the Board of BusinesSuites, a national operator of executive suites, which she co-founded with her husband in 1989. She received a BLS in Communication from St. Edward's University in 1997. She is on the board of directors of the LBJ Foundation and has served on multiple civic boards, raising funds for

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and the American Heart Association, acting as

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, and as a member of the advisory board of the Center for Battered Women.Baptism of Fire
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Personal life

Marriages and children

On August 6, 1966, Johnson married Air National Guardsman Patrick John "Pat" Nugent in front of 700 guests at the

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in Washington, D.C. The wedding was broadcast on television (drawing 55 million viewers) and was featured on the August 19, 1966, cover of ''

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'' magazine. They had four children: Patrick Lyndon (born 1967), a lawyer and a pilot in

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; Nicole Marie (born 1970); Rebekah Johnson (born 1974); and Claudia Taylor Nugent (born 1976). The couple later divorced, and the marriage was

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by the Catholic Church in August 1979. On March 3, 1984, she married Ian J. Turpin (born 1944), a Scottish-born

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; he is president of LBJ Asset Management Partners at LBJ Ranch. Through that marriage, she has a stepson.

Health issues

In April 2010, Johnson was diagnosed with

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(also known as Landry's paralysis), an

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disorder affecting the

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. She was flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to begin treatment. Johnson returned to Austin in May 2010. Her doctor called her case "less severe than usual," and she experienced a full recovery.

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