Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born March 19, 1944) is the elder of the two daughters of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. She served as First Lady of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and, before that, as Second Lady of Virginia from 1978 to 1982.
Lynda Bird was engaged to Bernard Rosenbach before she met the actor George Hamilton, who himself had been engaged to Susan Kohner. In 1966, Johnson and Hamilton began d...
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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born March 19, 1944) is the elder of the two daughters of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. She served as First Lady of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and, before that, as Second Lady of Virginia from 1978 to 1982.
Lynda Bird was engaged to Bernard Rosenbach before she met the actor George Hamilton, who himself had been engaged to Susan Kohner. In 1966, Johnson and Hamilton began dating. Because of an increase in Secret Service protection of Presidential relatives resulting from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Hamilton-Johnson couple were one of the first to be protected by Secret Service agents.
In Modern Screen Magazine, Hamilton declared that he could love Lynda Bird "even if she weren't the president's daughter". Nevertheless, the pair eventually broke up.
She married Marine Captain Charles S. Robb in the East Room of the White House in 1967. Her husband served with distinction in Vietnam. Charles Robb...
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