She thought Daddy wanted a boy. "She wouldn't cry, but you could just tell she wished things were different." . Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (lahir 19 Maret 1944) adalah putri sulung dari dua putri Presiden Amerika Serikat ke-36 Lyndon Baines Johnson dan Ibu Negara-nya Lady Bird Johnson. She doesn't call herself Lynda Bird anymore. The daughters of former Virginia Gov. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born March 19, 1944) is the elder of the two daughters of the 36th U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. 500 W US Hwy 24 Says Lynda, "There is no more LBJ." All rights reserved. "OH, ABSOLUTELY," LYNDA SAYS. For an ambitious first-born daughter, the world is born anew, and the family says this about Lucinda: "She'll be president someday." The third generation is a new breed. As ever, the princess was fearful of her public -- all those people looking afd whispering, judging her by her unruly hair or her too-big-for-her-face smile or her skinny legs, judging her by what is least important in life, just as they had done since she was a girl, the cameras always clicking, always seeming to freeze-frame her goosey neck or her pointed nose. and U.S. Sen. Charles Robb and his wife, Lynda, are grateful the two are alive after a fire destroyed the couples McLean, Virginia, home late Tuesday. She'd just wave. Both cousins think urban life, which requires strict timetables and parental oversight, complicates childhood. Even in college, she kept Daddy's taste in mind, once declining to buy a deep red velvet dress because Daddy didn't like any color verging on purple. She was a Johnson woman. "He was very affectionate, but he could also turn on the people he loved." Lynda Bird Johnson Robb - IMDb For that, credit goes to Lynda. It's a family adage, "Lose your breath, lose your turn." Be careful about going to parties where kids might be doing drugs. Sam Ealy Johnson Jr.'s mother, Eliza Bunton Johnson, is seated in the wheelchair. Lynda Bird Johnson : Family tree by Tim DOWLING (tdowling) CHUCK ROBB IS ASKED, IF LYNDA COULD change you, what would she change? Lucinda is asked, Is Mom a better politician than Dad? Over half a century after Eleanor Wilsons White House wedding, Lynda Bird Johnson and Marine Captain Charles Spittal Robb wed on December 9, 1967, in the East Room. I'm just acknowledging that's the way it is." She looks at her daughters -- and all their ambition and opportunity -- and she wonders how they will do it all: compete with men, raise families, be good continued on page 34 LYNDA ROBB continued from page 19 wives. "Girls after college went to New York to work at magazines. But the curious, intellectual Lucinda did read excerpts of Robert Caro's critical Johnson biography -- and, suddenly, the human cost of political life was passed on to the next generation. "You get a feeling when you drive up to the Hill Country and you'd see the Mystic sign, and you'd feel the weight of the world had been lifted off you," Covert said. Things change but they stay the same. Even today, Lucinda and Cathy urge Lynda to go to law school -- again, seeming to know what it is their mother needs to hear. The camera just works some magic. Lynda Bird's translation: "He makes it sound like no man will have me." (443 667 pixels, file size: 69 KB, MIME type: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/, Executive Office of the President of the United States, work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that persons official duties. Lynda has buried her own ambitions in those of her husband, but the tension remains. "I wouldn't say Lynda is a natural in terms of housework." "She said, 'Hey, I've been there and you haven't,' " recalls Chuck's old friend Douglas Davidson. Think of what people might say. Self: LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy. Robb was a lot like Johnson: confident, competent, ambitious -- so ambitious, it turned out, that he too had time for little else. On his right is his wife, Eliza Bunton Johnson; to her right is her mother, Priscilla Jane McIntosh Bunton. That devotion was passed on, in various degrees of intensity, to daughters Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and then to seven Johnson grandchildren, as well as to 13 great-grandchildren, now spread across the country. They say Lynda Robb was alerted to the fire by a smoke detector. "You're still the ugly duckling?" It's the kind of story that once soured her on politics altogether. None of us learned as much as she would have liked.". she moans. Self: LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy. Heads turn when she enters a room. She was married to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until his death in 1973. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents, This file is a work of an employee of the, 1968 Blue Room Christmas tree - Lynda Bird Johnson.jpg. We collect and match The home where the Robbs lived for decades was destroyed. She jet-setted with Hamilton in Acapulco, London, Hollywood, New Orleans, on John Wayne's yacht. She was not convinced. Property records show Robb purchased the home in 1973. Perhaps your daughters will choose not to marry a man like you, or a man like Lyndon Johnson, a man so absorbed in his work, a man who expects his wife to be part of a team of which he is captain. Lynda, exasperated by Chuck's failure to give her directions on some political task while he was in the statehouse, once quipped to a friend: "If he only told me what he wanted to be coronated for when he left here, I'd know what to do." And Chuck Robb does it again -- rises up, up in his very own organic elevator shoes. In one man's shadow, Lynda lived as a girl. [8] In 2004, Robb attended the state funeral of President Ronald Reagan, on behalf of her mother, who "YOU LOOK BACK AND say, 'How would my life have been different if . She married Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. on August 20, 1907. Eleven-year-old Jennifer, well, she's a basketball star whose father recently realized that she scores more baskets than he did at her age. And, at least in her later years, says a friend of Lady Bird's, she "rapped Lyndon's knuckles" plenty in private as she became increasingly self-reliant. The Library charges no usage fees for downloaded images. But the couples daughters say the most important thing is they have their parents. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born March 19, 1944) is the elder daughter of the 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Luci was charming and flirtatious, easy with people. She gives speeches and lobbies members of Congress and newspeople -- loudly arguing that it's an outrage that babies in the United States die at a higher rate than babies in 18 other developed nations of the world. In 1967, she married Chuck Robb, who later served as the Governor of Virginia. WebDescription. Lyndon Johnson was a man consumed by ambition and power and achievement. Lucinda agrees. Lady Bird was an only child, Lynda had no brothers, the Robbs have three girls. WebRobb married Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of then President Lyndon Baines and Lady Bird Johnson, in 1967. Her mother, Lady Bird, sees Lyndon Johnson in Lynda Bird all the time. I don't ever remember having any anger about it then, and I don't now." In the rebellious '60s, she was a girl of the '50s. If Sandburg couldn't bring so great a president to life, he asked, who could ever bring him, Lyndon Johnson, to life? Date(s) December 1968. They eat the chocolate and vanilla, leaving only the strawberry, in the Neapolitan ice cream, knowing that it irritates their obsessive dad -- a guy who every night after dinner, without fail, eats only two Hydrox (never Oreo) cookies. When Chuck ran for lieutenant governor, for instance, Lynda wrote a magazine article about being back in politics. "Well, you want to believe in your heart that he cares that much about you," she says. She served as chairwoman of the Board of Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, as well as chairwoman of the President's Advisory Committee for Women. WebShe has three daughters, Lucinda Desha Robb (born 1968), Catherine Lewis Robb (born 1970) and Jennifer Wickliffe Robb (born 1978). He was raised a Baptist, but he later became a member of the Christian Church. She served as chairwoman of the Board of Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, as well as chairwoman of the President's Advisory Committee for Women. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb was born on 19 March 1944 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. "There's definitely a feminine culture in our family," says Lucinda, who knows that her mother is simultaneously at the heart of that culture's stability and its change. Eventually, Lynda Bird came to think of her mother as her best friend. Lynda Robb is believed to have been injured taking the few extra seconds do something that signaled to her husband that she was out of the house and drew him in the direction of safety. This was always a problem for Lynda Bird, who as a teen wore a Size 14. These girls will have the chance, will even be expected, to stand on their own tiptoes. So does Cathy. The camera isn't always kind to Lynda, nor was it kind to her daddy, who would maneuver to get his left profile, which he inexplicably believed to be his best, before the lens. . "Mom's bright," says Lucinda. Lynda went on to set up the Good Old Girl Network, an ironically titled but deadly serious group of influential women in state government who met to talk about their problems and how to win more clout. In a rare moment of introspection, Johnson then told Goodwin, "Maybe I should have put my bets on immortality in my children and my grandchildren." But when the outer door swings open a moment later, there's Lynda, at the mirror, fussing with her hair. He put her on a diet. If she'd been a boy, they would surely have said, "That kid's gonna be president someday." "I don't like muley-lookin' things," he said. And Lynda Bird knew that too, was hurt by the talk that Luci was Daddy's favorite. "I loved my father," Lynda says today. It wasn't until she dated actor George Hamilton that Lynda discovered brains weren't enough, that if she wanted to feel good about herself, wanted men and Daddy to feel good about her, she had to compete in the feminine world of grace and beauty. One spends all his time near the ranch. The daughters of former Virginia Gov. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 1944319 - 36B197819821982198620131221. It happened to Lynda. On the evening of December 21, 2021, their home was consumed in flames and Senator and Mrs. Robb were hospitalized. Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. was born on November 12, 1838, in Wedowee, Alabama. Face it: If not for his marriage, Charles Spittal Robb could never have launched his political career running for Virginia lieutenant governor. It pleased him. The great-grandchildren are picking up the family trait. Lynda Bird was her reverse image -- serious and studious, the brain, shy and lacking in social confidence. Daddy was a man. This pettiness gets tiring. "She really should have been a lawyer," confides Lady Bird. She's so tall, with pure soft white skin against black hair, with a voice and a laugh that carry. She was given simple tasks, such as ripping ragweed out of wildflower beds. , born 26 June 1939 - Phoenix, Maricopa Co., AZ, age : 83 years old (Parents : James Spittal Robb 1908-1995 & Frances Howard Woolley 1914-2003) with. And not so much that it had to be the prettiest, but just take care of it. Lucinda Desha Robb With Lawrence Bennett Florio with. Lynda asks later, her voice rising. Her schedule is always packed. This page was last changed on 12 July 2022, at 07:23. "I mean, the women do have to take care of these guys." Despite having advanced macular degeneration in later life, Lady Bird Johnson could still spot a wildflower at 300 yards. Fax: 816-268-8295. "We were before the revolution," says her old friend Phyllis Bonanno. Luci was angry at her father for this, accused Lady Bird of not being a "real mother," played on her guilt. But before long, Lynda was aggressively drumming up money, support and interest. University of Texas at Austin. Daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. In person, Chuck Robb isn't imposing. . But it never came to that. Bentsen, "Lynda wanted his approval of everything she did, but they all seemed to work so hard -- the mother and the daughters -- to please him." - Family; White House - Miscellaneous - Christmas; White House - Rooms - Blue, An Ordinary Man, His Extraordinary Journey, President Harry S. Truman's White House Staff, National History Day Workshops from the National Archives, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb with infant in pram, National Archives and Records Administration. With tongue in cheek, Chuck may make some provocative, old mossback remark about women -- and the debate will fly. . Except, that is, to family. Robb and Covert bask in the reflected glory of their grandmother's achievements and try to stay modest and thankful about it. What's it got to do with war or peace, the deficit? But so much has changed since she was a girl happily dressing up for Daddy. Ia adalah anak tertua yang masih hidup dari seorang presiden AS, usai kematian pada 21 Desember 2013. Lynda fears this kind of regret will grip Chuck someday. I have no 'Daddy Dearest' stories." A gift from President Lyndon B. Johnson. Public Domain - This item is in the public domain and can be used freely without further permission. 500 W US Hwy 24 Independence, He was an American businessman and politician, who was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives representing the 89th District. No hard feelings. Wildflower center work is only a portion of the Johnson grandchildren's independent-minded philanthropic efforts, an instinct nurtured in their close family circle. And Luci Baines is so appealing and feminine there will always be some man around wanting to make a living for her." That no-account hair runs like a mysterious reprise through Lynda's life. "Even with our children at the ranch, they'd leave the house at 9 in the morning and come back only for meals, like we always did. Once, when Chuck told her he knows many high-powered men in professions other than politics who rarely see their kids, Lynda shot back: "So what? Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (ne Johnson) was born on March 19, 1944, in Washington, D.C. She is the elder of the two daughters of Lyndon B. Johnson. Yet men of his generation were sexists, she says. Johnson biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin argues that Johnson needed to be adored, that he could tolerate nothing less. I don't think parenthood comes naturally to anyone, but he grew into it. Chuck Robb She's also mother to her own children of politics, and she finds herself giving her daughters much the same advice her mother gave her. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (Washington, 19 de maro de 1944) a mais velha das duas filhas do 36 presidente dos Estados Unidos Lyndon B. Johnson e sua primeira- dama Bird Johnson. "And I know virtually nothing about wildflowers. Lynda Bird Robb "It was a fairly gradual thing," Robb says of his emerging interest in politics, and by the time he actually decided to run for lieutenant governor in 1976 Lynda no longer objected. Suddenly, they didn't only have to put up with invaded privacy and absent husbands. "She'd point farther, meaning the sunflowers 20 yards past that," Robb remembered. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. And, "You're sellin' yourself short." With her father at the helm, Lynda Bird Johnson maneuvered gracefully through the tumult, constantly supporting her father. "It was just so sad," B.A. Her friends even believe she has secretly come to enjoy politics, because she discovered what other women before her discovered: There's more price than payoff in being a political wife -- until husband dearest hits the big time. What is still true is that Lynda resents life in the fishbowl. I'd tell her, 'I tried not to kill everything out there.' It is true no more. "He was awful and wonderful to Lady Bird at once," says a woman who knew her well. See also Personal life Marriages and children Johnson at the All the Way movie premiere at Chuck worries too, but in his own way. This page was last edited on 6 April 2023, at 11:08. It's odd how often Lynda's friends, mother, sister, husband, daughters mention that she is beautiful. [9] He died on February 25, 1915. Only one man said he would. Lynda Bird, whose husband and friends now call her Lynda, has had better luck. [2] As first lady, she was an advocate for beautifying the nation's cities and highways, and the Highway Beautification Act came to be informally known as "Lady Bird's Bill". Their mothers had attended the private Christian camp, and all the daughters returned to the pristine spot. And even those, say the girls, came because Lynda made heroic efforts to fit them into Dad's wind-tunnel schedule. She was chairwoman of the Board of Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, as well as chairwoman of the President's Advisory Committee for Women. In or near Stonewall, Texas. Besides, Lady Bird needed Lynda, needed someone to talk to honestly without fear that something she said in anger or humor would end up blown-back in the newspapers. The first two girls grew up spending only rare moments with him. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. PRIVACY TAKE-DOWN REQUEST 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. Robb Johnson had finally realized, Goodwin says, how hard it is to be seen as great in the unforgiving eyes of history. Chuck is not Lyndon. For all her fragility and fear, the woman has fiber. The Robbs' marriage was traditional, and Chuck proved more willing to risk resentment on Lynda's part. He was the paternal grandfather of Lyndon B. Johnson and was the tenth child of Lucy Webb (Barnett) and Jess Johnson. Helping the wildflower center is one way they pay tribute to that dreamy outdoor youth. With feigned seriousness, Cathy calls him "My father, the senator." As they got older, the girls learned that Daddy liked clothes that made them look slim, not dresses made of heavy "saddle blankets," as he put it. It was vintage Lynda Bird: Blunt to a point just this side of rudeness, eager to impress, quick to flaunt her knowledge. Rebekah Baines Johnson was born on June 26, 1881. Absolutely. No person is perfect. From a leather bound album of 22 photos of President Johnson and family at the White House. No use. . The former Virginia first lady is the oldest living child of a US president. Former Virginia Gov. Charles Robb It's no big deal." Again, her confidence soared. She'd lost too much of her life to that game. She went to the garage and she got the car and she pulled it out and she focused the lights on the place that she thought my dad might be coming in from, Lucinda Robb said. Initiated on Aug. 27, 2008 the centennial of President Lyndon Johnson's birth and planned for completion on Dec. 22, 2012 which would have been Mrs. Johnson's 100th birthday the campaign has already raised almost $100,000 for highway, school and community plantings. No, she was tormented by the vision of her father being broken and nearly destroyed by Vietnam. She believed she'd sacrificed a lot because Daddy was in politics. And at just that instant, the senator from Virginia rises up on his tiptoes, giving him and posterity an imaginary extra inch or two on the crowd and on his very tall wife. He is asked, What would you change about her? It is Christmas in the White House. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb Lynda Bird Johnson Robb is the elder daughter of the 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. A Johnson Family gathering in 1912. She'd always point things out. Show Me More. We all said she looked like a fairy princess." It caught me off guard.". Lynda and Chuck (watched by her parents) on their wedding day in 1967. Johnson's extramarital flirtations eventually became gossip for Washington insiders, and Caro writes that only a few years after his marriage, Johnson was leaving Lady Bird behind while he went for weekends to the Virginia estate of his lover, Alice Glass. Lynda had been there. He is told, Perhaps it won't be society but young women themselves who will solve this problem by their choice of husbands. She then tries an old tack: "I'm still just as nervous and shy and, really . FOR HER MOTHER, LBJ'S WORD WAS LAW. OF HER prototypes of the mythical American teenager -- Gidget goes to Washington -- and they knew they would be judged against that standard. 2023 www.statesman.com. They'll put Lady Bird on her grave. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, "Lynda Johnson Robb and George Hamilton: When a president's daughter dated a movie star", "Hollywood Flashback: George Hamilton Once Took LBJ's Daughter to the Oscars", https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lynda_Bird_Johnson_Robb&oldid=8336968, Children of Presidents of the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Explore genealogy for Lynda Bird (Johnson) Robb born 1940s including ancestors + children + more in the free family tree community. 1912) and Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973, president of the U.S., 19631968); married Charles S. Robb (U.S. senator), in 1967; children: three. Print out this page and retain it for your permissions records before downloading this image file for possible publication. It was mostly chatter, but it ended this way: "I'm doing all this for someone else -- why not for myself?" Who nurses sick kids? In fact, they slope a bit, and his eyes carry deep circles. She seemed spoiled and petulant. Officials say it could take days, or even weeks to determine the cause of the fire. She swept her hair up to reveal a face made thin by a one-meal-a-day regimen. "At school, my daughter made what they called a 'little museum,'\u2009" Covert said. Remember, something you say to a friend in confidence might land on the front page of the New York Times. He asked her to lunch. "But it's just what people might say." "I never questioned that I was loved," Lynda says. "I thought I was marrying a general," she says, laughing. Education Cathy: "I don't think so. "Being a politician's wife is a conservative, anachronistic, full-time profession," says Lucinda. If you prefer to keep it private, Sam Ealy Johnson Sr. (center) with family members. Lynda Bird (Johnson) Robb (b. 1940s) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree THE HAIR. Login to find your connection. When Johnson became president, Lynda Bird and Luci became presto! Chuck Robb, stiff and erect in black tie and dinner jacket, came in and said sternly, "Lynda, don't spend one more minute with your hair." My experiences with my father were very positive. Ready, one more time . "But I don't think he wavered in what he wanted to do." Former Virginia Gov. It's not nearly as bad as it was when she herself was young. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb. LYNDA BIRD DIDN'T WANT to leave Texas for Washington, but after President Kennedy's assassination, her folks feared for her life, and her mother wanted Lynda and Luci to have the once-in-a-lifetime experi- ence of living in the White House. The published accounts of her father's philandering and his selfish, manipulative ways have hurt her deeply, and she refuses to read them. Who does the housework? Lynda Bird is 25 degrees from Timothy Berners-Lee, 23 degrees from Marian Croak, 27 degrees from Jack Dorsey, 21 degrees from Douglas Engelbart, 28 degrees from Elizabeth Feinler, 28 degrees from Steve Jobs, 21 degrees from Larry Page, 21 degrees from Dennis Ritchie, 21 degrees from Claude Shannon, 20 degrees from William Thomson, 26 degrees from Raymond Tomlinson and 16 degrees from Carl Dickason on our single family tree. Since then, a lot has come down. It was 1966. Lady Bird had always told the girls that politics was a life of trade-offs -- Lynda lost her privacy, but she got to meet poet Carl Sandburg. But most like Daddy is the way Lynda suffers criticism -- not well or easily or gracefully. Ela a filha mais velha viva de um presidente dos EUA, aps a morte de John Eisenhower em 21 de dezembro de 2013. http://arz.dbpedia.org/resource/___, http://azb.dbpedia.org/resource/___, http://ml.dbpedia.org/resource/___, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Then she smiles, and chuckles, ha, ha, ha -- but with that edge, that edge emergent in the Johnson family's new feminine culture, that edge of Lynda Bird Johnson Robb's own making, her own awakening, that edge born of her own regrets, ambitions and resentments, and of her own hopes for the future. English: Lynda Bird Johnson Robb in front of White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room with Johnson grandchildren Patrick Lyndon Nugent and Lucinda Robb. BUT LYNDA JOHNSON ROBB IS A WOMAN BETWEEN TWO WORLDS - The Washington Post. My dad and I went to the hospital to go see her, Catherine Robb said. No one thought that odd. Once, they jokingly dubbed him "the Supreme Being" and suggested he run for pope. . The love and support weve had from everyone has meant so much, and were so incredibly grateful, Jennifer Robb said.
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