The Capital: The Real Charlie

It isn't every day that a father can shed a political liability and gain a son-in-law. If he had been programmed on a Pentagon computer, Marine Captain Charles S. Robb, the 28-year-old White House social aide who sought and won Lynda Bird Johnson's hand, could not have turned out better for the President, who had made no secret of his displeasure over Lynda's long ro mance with draft-deferred Actor George Hamilton. Robb is tall (6 ft. 1½), dark, handsome, athletic, affable, intelligent, earnest, circumspect—and can hardly wait for his assignment to Viet Nam early next year. And while the...

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