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...blades of the backup helicopter for President Nixon's Marine One whirred to a stop, the chopper door popped open, and out onto the brand-new White House West helipad stepped the whole Johnson family: Lyndon and Lady Bird, Pat and Luci Nugent, Major Charles Robb and Lynda. They had come all the way from Texas for the latest extravaganza by Richard Nixon Productions Inc., a 61st birthday moveable feast for L.B.J. that started in San Clemente and ended in the new Redwood National Park, 800 miles farther up the California coast. It was an unlikely summit meeting between...
...alighted from a commercial airliner at El Toro Marine Air Station, Calif., the major's first words were, "I can hardly wait to see that baby of mine." The major was Charles Robb, just returned from a 13-month tour in Viet Nam and eager to join Wife Lynda Bird and six-month-old Lucinda Desha, whom he had never seen. Wearing an undecorated khaki uniform, Robb agreeably deflected newsmen's questions about his plans. "I've been ducking ambushes in Viet Nam for 13 months," he said, "and now you have to ambush me here...
...friends and relatives, including Lyndon Baines Johnson. "Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous," the proud father-in-law repeated, and occasionally prompted Grandson Lyn, almost 2, into a snappy salute. Said Lynda Bird: "I'm just so glad we have one of our boys home." Her boy, Marine Major Charles Robb, is due back late this month...
Arriving in Bangkok, the young Marine loped over to the pretty young lady in the red dress, gave her a big hug and kiss. Then Chuck Robb and Lynda politely but plainly told newsmen they wanted to be alone to enjoy his R & R after combat in Viet Nam. A photographer did snap them atop an elephant but, aside from that, they were left in peace for five days of sightseeing and shopping. Then, off to Danang for Chuck, home to a Texas Christmas for Lynda and back, as she said, to "writing each other every...
Wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair ("for her daddy who is far, far away") Lucinda Desha Robb, 6 days old, left the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., to take up temporary residence in the White House. There, dressed in a long white gown that once belonged to her mother, wearing white crocheted booties and wrapped in a white blanket knitted by her paternal grandmother, Lucinda formally met the press for the first time. Grandfather Lyndon Johnson summed up the family's feelings about its latest addition: "Wonderful," he beamed...