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Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the way back was talk about little Lyn. I can't remember, Lucinda wouldn't have been born by then, but maybe Lynda knew she was pregnant. So we were all quite relieved, because if I'm correct I think that was a Saturday and we all wanted to be able to go
  • of the Nonproliferation Treaty; LBJ's wish to improve the world for future generations; LBJ's reflective nature; recordings LBJ's son-in-law, Charles Robb, sent to LBJ discussing Vietnam; LBJ's concern over events in Vietnam; protocol surrounding the presentation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , serves to create a certain amount of tension between the two girls. P: Very normal. M: They can snap at each other just like any other sisters on occasion. P: Have you seen that? M: Oh, yes. P: To continue on with Lynda Johnson Robb, I believe
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • written to Chuck Percy and said that President Johnson's son-in-law, Captain Robb, had been in charge of a platoon that staged an even bigger massacre in Vietnam. I was not familiar with this story myself, but Johnson said that Percy, instead of calling
  • Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that during that period his price per picture went up astoundingly. B: The Johnsons seem obviously perfectly happy with Pat Nugent and Chuck Robb. A: Absolutely, they really are. B: You must have known then-Captain Robb before Lynda. A: Yes, I did
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Bird was married, before luci had her second baby; there's just the first baby. The Robbs didn't have a baby. That was Christmas, 1967, you see. M: May I read the inscription? T: You certainly may. M: Mrs. Taylor has just shown me a picture
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , based again on infrequent observation, is one who lives with the burdens of the Presidency and lives with the good of the nation twenty-four hours a day. I remember one evening over at Headquarters Marine Corps shortly after Chuck Robb had gone
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oxygen. But I don't recall the details of that. G: Okay. H: And the next time I was intimately involved was the twenty-third of March, 1972. He and Lady Bird were visiting Lynda and Chuck Robb in Charlottesville. Johnson had severe chest pains
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this town. Mrs. Truman did not like to get in it all, but Lady Bird was in it, all the way. I had a letter from Chuck Robb this morning, was supporting him out in Virginia, where half of my family come, from. There's a fellow who could go far, a fine man
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the basic commanders were not knowledgeable on the capabilities of air power at that time because of--a navy lieutenant by the name of Jimmy Robb, who was on the ship, and I--and we grew to be friends on the trip over as far as Hawaii--we 2 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : [Inaudible] George Herman Brown. [Inaudible] W: I think-- G: This was one--I think you're thinking about the first one in 1955. This one was in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was visiting the Robbs, I think. W: Yes. G: What did he say about that? You
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • might get there and you could not cross the river. So ask Cousin Ava if you can't spend the night with her." Anyway, I got that all arranged. [see Lynda Johnson Robb's oral history for her memory of the flood] From then on, the day began to take over
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was talking about that the other night in terms of the March 31 speech. She had just seen Chuck [Robb] off to Vietnam that day, and she came back and she knew she was pregnant. Chuck was gone and her life was destroyed. Then she walked in to discover that her
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . There would be times when Lynda Robb would call me for some assistance on photo albums or prints and the type of matting and the type of framing and how many she wanted, then I would give them to different people to work on. We have various specialists here
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a good hostess, too, and married Mr. Robb, now lieutenant governor of Virginia. In my opinion the younger daughter wasn't as politically inclined. I never did see her very much around the White House--at least she wasn't as active as Lynda, the older
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , admitted that she had not been entirely comfortable as the fourth in a three­ hour bridge game with Lady Bird and Lynda and Chuck Robb. But LBJ had delivered to Chuck. He congratulated Chuck and told him he would have the deer dressed and sent to him
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEES: Lady Bird Johnson [CTJ] , O. B. Hardeman [OBH], Ralph Huitt [RH], Lindy Boggs [LB], J. J. Pickle [JJP], Lynda Robb [LR], Luci Nugent [LN], Dean Reid [DR], Patsy Steves CPS], Carl Albert rCA], Beryl Pickle [BP], Richard Neustadt [RN
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cowles -- I -- 25 M: Do you see anybody on the horizon now, in either party, that interests you as presidential material? C: I must tell you that five or six years ago I thought it would be Chuck Robb, a potential hero
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was concerned, some as far as I was concerned. example is Maxine Ches:1ire, She was very fair. There were certainly But I think that the one outstanding who wrote that Chuck Robb was trying to delay his going to Viet Nam, which was not true--a lie
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the potentialities of my compromise approach to want to know how to deal with it on that basis. I had become, in other words, sort of a prop to his kind of moderation. I doubt that he was sendi ng r1ax Robb to anybody el se at the same time because thi s seemed
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • decisions and encourage her to do the proper thing. She was unhappy at that time. This was after George [Hamilton], in between George and Chuck [Robb]. In other words, [they wanted] someone who was solace but yet who would be sure that things were done right
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out in the papers the list of people that were invited and that could not come on account of illness. One was Mrs. Robb's sister or aunt; she had something wrong with her hip or something. It didn't say that the President's brother couldn't come
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Lynda Bird and Chuck Robb, Tom Johnson, Walter Jenkins, D. B. [HardemanJ. But there's ali ttl e ki nd of a thing that IS not compl imentary to him that nobody knows about that probably ought to be in the mix available only for .scholarly background
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wives. They were very close at that time; they were very friendly. I had a daughter that was very close to Mrs. [Lynda Johnson] Robb, and they were friendly and all. But I often wondered why he had me there. G: Did he talk about the mood of the country
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)