Mother was calm and kept everybody calm. Loving, but no flibbertigibbet from my mother, ever that I saw her. My father gave her many, many, reasons to be upset or nervous or anxious or whatever. All of their married life he would call her and say, “I’m bringing six people home for dinner,” or whatever, at the last minute. But Mother was very happy about the marriage. Tell us about the wedding gifts you gave to both sets of parents. LYNDA ROBB: It was made from a pin that I gave to my bridesmaids, a little gold Marine bulldog mounted on a piece of wood along with a bird with a heart and an arrow through it. It had two symbols—the Marine Corps and Lynda Bird—under glass. It sat on my mother’s dresser for many, many years. And where is it today? LYNDA ROBB: On my mother’s dresser, on loan to the Park Service. You can go on a tour and see it. STEWART MCLAURIN: And what other memories do you have of that special day?
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said much about your mom in this story, the first lady of the United States. How was she on the day of the wedding, with her daughter getting married? LYNDA ROBB: Mother was calm always. I never saw her flustered, and that’s both a good thing and a bad thing. I tried to emulate her, and of course I couldn’t, because I had at least 50 percent of Lyndon Johnson, and he never sat still. But white house history quarterly
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CHUCK ROBB: I remember that I was very, very happy when I got in my little green Austin Healey to drive to the White House. I had asked some of my fellow Marines stationed with me at Eighth and I Street to be ushers and provide the saber arch. And my best man was the Marine who also served as a social aide with me. Then Lynda and I had a very short honeymoon. We have never told anybody where we spent our first night. LYNDA ROBB: Daddy was sad a little bit about losing his daughter, although I wasn’t very lost, because when Chuck left for Vietnam, I moved right back in the White House.
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