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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born March 19, 1944) is the elder daughter of the 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson.She served as chairwoman of the Board of Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, as well as chairwoman of the President's Advisory Committee for Women.
As her parents both had the initials LBJ, they named their two daughters to have these initials also. [1] Although her father was a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) , her mother was an Episcopalian , and she and her older sister, Lynda Bird , were raised as Episcopalians.
She is the younger of the two daughters of Lyndon B. Johnson. Her name was originally spelled "Lucy", but she changed the spelling in her teens as a rebellion against her parents. [6] Since 1993, she has been the chairman of the board and manager of LBJ Asset Management Partners, a family office, as well as chairman of the board of BusinesSuites.
Luci Baines Johnson was a somewhat impatient 18-year-old on Aug. 6, 1965, when she happened to be on what she called “daddy duty,” meaning “I was supposed to accompany him to important ...
To the Conns’ dismay, a sign on the front glass door of the World Market read, “Due To The Fires In the Surrounding Areas We Will Be Closing Today at 5 p.m.’’ Here they were, about 13 ...
In 1969, two years after her father's death, Toni was denied a position as a translator for the United Nations because the FBI would not give her a security clearance.
They had two daughters: Lynda Bird in 1944 and Luci Baines in 1947. Johnson gave his children names with the LBJ initials; his dog was named Little Beagle Johnson, and his home was the LBJ Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. His initials were on his cufflinks, ashtrays, and clothes. [341]
Both daughters say that they didn’t watch The Twilight Zone regularly when they were kids, but came to appreciate the series, which aired from 1959 to 1964 on CBS, after their father’s death.