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", but she 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 o...
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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", but she 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 and was conditionally baptized. Since Luci had been baptized with water and in the name of the Trinity when five months old by an Episcopal priest in Austin, Texas, her "rebaptism" caused protests from leading figures in the Episcopal Church. It reached the front pages, for Roman Catholic teaching does not require converts who are already baptized to receive baptism a second time...
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