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Hi, my name's Barbara Garrick. I'm playing Lady Bird Johnson in The Great Society at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center
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LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson, asked her to marry him on their first date
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he had met her the night before when he was on a date with three women and as he left with one of
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them he whispered to her meet me for breakfast so she said she would meet him for breakfast but then
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she got sidetracked on something to do in the hotel where they were supposed to have breakfast
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and he saw her leaving the hotel and he went after her and brought her back and he believes
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that she might not ever have come and fulfilled her commitment to have the date if he hadn't
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flagged her down. He's not sure, he wasn't sure. Anyway, they went for a car ride and she was
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intoxicated. She said she was like a moth to a flame and he was so full of vitality and
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And so she was swept away, but she didn't say yes until 10 weeks later when he came back from law school to Texas and said
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if you don't marry me now, that's it. This is your last chance
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And she knew that if she didn't say yes, she was going to miss out on this great adventure in life
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and this man that she was so infatuated and in love with eventually
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And they got married that next day
