ourpresidents: Washington D.C.’s Cherry Blossom Festival has begun.  Here’s Lady Bird Johnson planting a tree by the Tidal Basin during the 1965 Festival.  Washington D.C., 04/06/1965 I’m curious about the (presumably) Japanese woman behind Lady Bird. Was she a performer for the festival?  The wife of the ambassador?    Update: Thanks to willowispschopsticks and Wikipedia, the Japanese woman is Ryuji Takeuchi, wife of the Japanese ambassador.

ourpresidents:

Washington D.C.’s Cherry Blossom Festival has begun.  Here’s Lady Bird Johnson planting a tree by the Tidal Basin during the 1965 Festival.  Washington D.C., 04/06/1965

I’m curious about the (presumably) Japanese woman behind Lady Bird. Was she a performer for the festival?  The wife of the ambassador?   

Update: Thanks to willowispschopsticks and Wikipedia, the Japanese woman is Ryuji Takeuchi, wife of the Japanese ambassador.