At the wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson [Pictured: Left] and Charles Robb in December 1967, people saw how Lady Bird handled her husband on occasion. As the bride and groom and their relatives lined up in the Yellow Oval Room to be photographed after the ceremony, out wandered Luci Johnson’s little white dog, Yuki, dressed in his best red velvet sweater.
”We’ve got to get Yuki in the picture,” cried LBJ, reaching for the dog. “We can’t have a family portrait without him.”
”That dog is not going to be in the wedding picture,” announced Lady Bird firmly. LBJ started to argue, but she refused to be put off. “Mr. Brant,” she told a White House aide, “get that dog out of here right now! He will not be photographed!”
The President retreated, Brant removed the dog, Lynda breathed a sigh of relief, and the cameras started clicking.
Source:
Boller, Paul F. "Lady Bird Johnson." Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 395. Print.
Original Source Listed:
West, Upstairs at the White House, 348-49.
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