Anyway, it was an unbelievable time, and 1968 was the year from hell for us. There wasn’t a thing in the Bible about calamities that didn’t happen to us. Two good things happened. One was our daughter Lucinda’s birth in October, and the second was in December when Apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return to Earth. I remember the Christmas Eve television broadcast in which the astronauts read in turn the first ten verses from the Book of Genesis. Otherwise it was a very, very difficult time for me, for Chuck, for Daddy.
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So the White House was the home to Lucinda Desha Robb, when she arrived the next October. LYNDA ROBB: Yes, that was her first home for almost three months. CHUCK ROBB: Lynda said she wanted to have a project while I was gone. Of course the main project was being pregnant and giving birth without having a husband to help. But she would write me every day and send me all kinds of things, including tapes. Her father had given each of us portable tape recorders, and I took mine to Vietnam and Lynda had hers, so she could listen to the tapes I sent. STEWART MCLAURIN to CHUCK ROBB: You went on to have an
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have a child serve in combat. If you study American history, you will find that not very many presidential children served in a war.
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