Word: robbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every day that a father can shed a political liability and gain a son-in-law. If he had been programmed on a Pentagon computer, Marine Captain Charles S. Robb, the 28-year-old White House social aide who sought and won Lynda Bird Johnson's hand, could not have turned out better for the President, who had made no secret of his displeasure over Lynda's long ro mance with draft-deferred Actor George Hamilton. Robb is tall (6 ft. 1½), dark, handsome, athletic, affable, intelligent, earnest, circumspect-and can hardly wait for his assignment...
...President's announcement of a December White House wedding had caught even Press Secretary Liz Carpenter off guard. But a month ago Robb had told his mother and his father, who is the American Airlines' district sales manager in Milwaukee, that he and Lynda Bird were serious. A dedicated career officer, Robb graduated straight into the Marines in 1961 from the University of Wisconsin, where he garnered a degree in business administration. He first emerged from the pack of personable young officers assigned to White House social duties when he was called to be a fourth at bridge...
...campaign for Congress ("Ev Dirksen is the only one who complains that one set of curls in Congress is enough"), gave informal confirmation to suspicions that he is a White House intimate. "Lynda looked just marvelous," said Hope, nicknamed Bob, "and I'm sure she and General Robb will be happy...
...struggled unsuccessfully to escape from Aristotle Onassis' yacht in the Mediterranean. As Hamilton confirmed all with a "We shall always be friends" statement, Lynda Bird let it be known that she has not been wholly unhappy recently in the company of Marine Captain and White House Aide Charles Robb, 28, her favorite bridge partner and her host at a beach bash in Delaware over the Fourth of July weekend...
Indictment & Acquittal. Robb then turned to the papers' editorial side. "It was my conclusion," he says, "that our job should be a reporting job." The first full job of coverage was on a report by the State Investigation Commission condemning the city's purchasing practices. Then, in 1961, Reform Candidate Rev. Robert K. Hudnut ran for mayor against the machine-picked Erastus Corning II. The papers duly reported Hudnut's charges against the machine: that it had been controlling votes through tax assessments; that it had been making huge profits in settling tax-delinquency cases. Corning...