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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former first lady
Lady Bird Johnson has been hospitalized and is undergoing medical
tests, but is awake and receiving visits from family members and
friends, a family spokesman said Friday.
Johnson, 94, who has been hospitalized with
strokes in the past, did not suffer a stroke this time, said
longtime family friend Neal Spelce. He did not disclose the
symptoms that led to her admission to Seton Medical Center. He said
her doctors are running tests.
One of her two daughters, Luci Baines
Johnson of Austin, is with her and daughter Lynda Johnson Robb was
expected to arrive in Austin tonight, Spelce said. Her husband,
Lyndon Baines Johnson, died in 1973.
"Mrs. Johnson is resting comfortably and is
awake and lucid," Spelce said. "Her family is with her. ... I had a
nice little visit with her."
He said there are no planned news briefings
at the hospital, and that it was not known when Johnson might be
released.
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