Linda was coming in on the red eye special from California about seven o'clock out

the heading kiss Chuck goodbye the night before. Linda Johnson, the older of

Lyndon and Lady Bird's two daughters, had married Chuck Robb in December of

1967. Now, just a few months later, he's headed to Vietnam, joining nearly

550,000 American troops. The press images from this scene showed 24-year-old

Linda surrounded by a scrum of reporters. Her hairs pulled back with a wide

headband and she's clinging to a coffee tin filled with roundies for Chuck

send off to denang. After they're goodbye emotional and all-too-public, she

watches the graduate and cries through the entire movie.

In March of 1968, the Johnson presidency is done and Lyndon and Lady Bird, they

know it. In fact, they've planned it for years, but like a lot of things people

plan, it's not gonna go the way they expect. From Besque Studios and ABC

Audio, this is In Plain Site. I'm Julia Swig.

Episode seven, no exit.

Linda arrives at the White House early Sunday morning. I wanted to be right there at the

door with open arms to meet her, but I beg Lyndon not to get up. No, I want to, he said.

So the operator called us in what seemed the gray early morning and both of us were downstairs

at 7 o'clock when she stepped out of the car. The president is going to deliver a live

address to the nation that night. The subject so far as anyone knows is Vietnam. For more

than two months, North Vietnamese troops and the Viet Cong have unleashed a ferocious series

of attacks called the Tet Offensive. American casualties are high. Public support for the war

is at an all-time low. The Tet Offensive had more effect here than it did in Vietnam.

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