After Captain Robb left for duty in Vietnam in February 1968, Lynda Robb returned to the White House to live. Daughter Lucinda Desha Robb, born in October 1968, spent her first Christmas in the White House (opposite).
CHUCK ROBB: For our fiftieth, we invited the original wedding party and many of the guests that we knew were still alive. We converted the house that we live in into what was the functional equivalent of a hotel ballroom and did a black tie dinner, got an orchestra to come play for the dancing, and had a great time. And of course we had our children and grandchildren on display. It was a very great occasion for us, memorable in every respect. Lynda has the distinction of being the only presidential daughter married in the White House who has had the privilege of celebrating a golden wedding anniversary.
LYNDA ROBB: For many years, when he was in the Senate, Chuck would ask if we could come over to the White House on December 9 around 4:00 p.m., so we could stand in the East Room on our anniversary. The most important people to get to know at the White House are the ushers—not the presidents and first ladies, because they leave. So I always tried to stay good friends with the ushers. One time, I think it was our twentieth wedding anniversary, or maybe it was our twenty-fifth, the usher said we could come over, and the White House staff gave us champagne to toast. CHUCK ROBB: Yes, we toasted our marriage and stood in the East Room and remembered our wedding.
NOTE Stewart McLaurin’s full interviews with Lynda Johnson Robb and Governor Chuck Robb are available as podcasts on the White House Historical Association website, www.whitehousehistory. org/1600-sessions.
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Chuck and Lydna Robb’s family (below in 2017) has grown to include three daughters, Lucinda Desha Robb, Catherine Lewis Robb, and Jennifer Wickliffe Robb, two sons-in-law, Joshua Glazer and Lars Florio, and five grandchildren.
extraordinarily distinguished career in public service in our country, for which we’re very grateful. Both you and Lynda have been wonderful friends of the Association and great leaders in our country and we appreciate all that you have given and done for us and so we congratulate you on your fiftieth wedding anniversary.
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