Everything about Lynda Bird Johnson totally explained
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 would serve with distinction in
Vietnam. Charles Robb would then and go on to become
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (1978 - 1982), making her Second Lady of Virginia. Later, Robb became
Governor of Virginia, making her First Lady of Virginia. He also served as a two-term
Senator from the state of
Virginia.
Lynda Byrd Johnson Robb served as chairman of the board of
Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, from 1996 to 2001. She continues to serve the organization as Chairman
emerita. From 1969 to 1981, she was a contributing editor to
Ladies Home Journal magazine. She serves on the Board of Directors of the LBJ Foundation and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Johnson was educated at the
National Cathedral School for Girls, graduated from the
University of Texas at Austin and holds
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from
Washington and Lee University and
Norwich University, and has been honored with a plethora of civic awards for her public service.
She is the mother of three, in her words, "almost perfect" daughters,
Lucinda Desha Robb (
1968),
Catherine Lewis Robb (
1970) and
Jennifer Wickliffe Robb (
1978).
In 2004, Lynda Bird attended the
state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan, on behalf of her mother, Lady Bird Johnson, who was unable to attend because of poor health and mobility problems. She again represented her mother for the
state funeral of former President Gerald Ford, who died
December 26,
2006.
Lynda was presented with the Ella Dickey Literacy Award in her McLean, Virginia home by Nicholas W. Inman in 2002. The award honored Lynda Bird for her work in literacy and was presented on behalf of the Inman Literacy Council in Marshfield, Missouri.
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