Luci Baines Johnson

Luci Baines Johnson Turpin, formerly Nugent, (born July 2, 1947) is the younger daughter of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, the former Claudia Alta Taylor (known as Lady Bird Johnson). Her name was originally spelled "Lucy"; she informally changed the spelling in her teens. 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 Christian Church Disciples of Christ, her mother was an Episcopalian, and she and her older sister, Lynda Bird, were raised as Episcopalians. Luci converted to Catholicism at the age of eighteen, when she requested and received conditional baptism. Since Luci had been baptized with water and in the name of the...