In this photograph by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Lynda Bird Johnson and Marine Corps Capt. Charles S. Robb use a saber to cut their wedding cake while her parents, President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, look on. Johnson and Robb were married in the East Room of the White House, where they also cut their cake, on December 9, 1967. Per Marine Corps tradition, the couple uses a saber to cut through the five-layer cake, as they became the 15th couple to be married in the White House. Immediately following the cake-cutting ceremony, the couple performed their first dance.

In this photograph by Yoichi R. Okamoto, designer Geoffrey Beene holds up the shoulder-length veil worn by Lynda Bird Johnson at her wedding on December 9, 1967. Beene was captured in the Center Hall on the Second Floor of the White House that day ahead of the wedding ceremony. Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, married Marine Corps Capt. Charles S. Robb in the East Room. The veil was made of silk illusion and attached to a coronet made of the same silk satin fabric and embroidery as her gown.

In this photograph, taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on March 27, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson pins a saucer magnolia flower to the lapel of figure skating champion Peggy Fleming in the Oval Office. Johnson plucked the blossom for Fleming from a saucer magnolia tree in the Rose Garden. The 19-year-old figure skater earned a gold medal in the ladies' singles competition at the 1968 Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France. President Johnson invited Fleming and her mother Doris to the Oval Office, where he presented the Olympic champion with a gold bangle and pinned the magnolia blossom to her lapel. Later in her career, Fleming headed a figure skating group that performed for President Jimmy Carter during a Christmas party for White House staff on December 22, 1980.

This photograph taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on December 9, 1967 is of President Lyndon B. Johnson escorting bride and daughter Lynda Bird Johnson down the Grand Staircase for her wedding ceremony. The first daughter exchanged vows with Capt. Charles S. Robb of the United States Marine Corps in the East Room of the White House. The White House Christmas decorations doubled as décor for the December wedding, including a garland on the Grand Staircase of natural greenery entwined with red and silver ornaments, seen here.

This photograph of an inaugural ball for President Lyndon B. Johnson was taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on January 20, 1965. Following President Johnson's second inauguration, inaugural balls were held at the National Guard Armory and four Washington, D.C. hotels: the Mayflower, Sheraton-Park, Shoreham, and Statler-Hilton. Pictured here from left to right: Luci Baines Johnson (wearing a pink gown), First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lynda Bird Johnson, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Humphrey.

This photograph of Luci Baines Johnson and her older sister Lynda Bird Johnson was taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on November 30, 1963. Both were teenagers when their father, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as president following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

This photograph of First Lady Lady Bird Johnson walking alongside her daughters and their significant others at the president's ranch in Gillespie County, Texas, was taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on September 30, 1967. Pictured here from left-to-right: Marine Corps Capt. Charles S. Robb, boyfriend of Lynda Bird Johnson; Lynda Bird Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Luci Baines Johnson; and Patrick Nugent, Luci's husband. Luci holds Yuki, the family's beloved mixed-breed dog. Luci discovered Yuki at a gas station on Thanksgiving Day in 1966, where he was soon adopted by the family and became a favorite of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In this photograph, taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on January 10, 1969, Lynda Bird Johnson shares a smile with her infant daughter, Lucinda Desha Robb. Johnson was the eldest daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Born on October 25, 1968, Lucinda was the first child of Lynda Bird and her husband, Capt. Charles S. Robb. When Lucinda was born, Capt. Robb was serving in Vietnam. Lynda Bird and Charles would later welcome two more daughters, Catherine and Jennifer.

This black-and-white portrait of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family was taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on November 30, 1963. Seen here from left-to-right: Lynda Bird Johnson, eldest daughter of President Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; Luci Baines Johnson, the Johnsons' youngest daughter; President Johnson; and Mrs. Johnson. President Johnson was sworn in as president following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

This photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson dancing with First Lady Lady Bird Johnson at their daughter Lynda Bird Johnson's wedding reception in the East Room was taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on December 9, 1967. The first daughter exchanged vows with Marine Corps Capt. Charles S. Robb during their ceremony in the East Room of the White House.

In this photograph, taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on March 27, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson plucks a flower from a blossoming saucer magnolia tree in the Rose Garden as a gift for Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming. The 19-year-old figure skater earned a gold medal in the ladies' singles competition at the 1968 Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France. President Johnson invited Fleming and her mother Doris to the Oval Office, where he presented the Olympic champion with a gold bangle and pinned the magnolia blossom to her lapel. Later in her career, Fleming headed a figure skating group that performed for President Jimmy Carter during a Christmas party for White House staff on December 22, 1980.

In this photograph, taken in the Oval Office on January 18, 1964 by Yoichi R. Okamoto, President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with a group of civil rights leaders. Among the group are the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (left), Whitney M. Young, Jr. of the National Urban League (right), and James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality (far right).

In this photograph, taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the President's Room of the Capitol building while Civil Rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. look on. The Voting Rights Act was designed to the "enforce the 15th amendment" and remove the barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote. The statue's provisions included: banning literacy tests, empowering the attorney general to investigate the unlawful use of poll taxes, and made the act of harassing, intimidating, threatening to prevent a lawfully registered voter from voting punishable by a fine of up $10,000, a five-year prison sentence or both. The legislation also allowed for the appointment of federal examiners with the ability to register qualified citizens to vote in jurisdictions where less than 50 percent of the voting age population was registered to vote. This legislation had a tremendous and immediate impact with over a quarter-million African Americans registered to vote by the end of 1965.

In this photograph, taken on December 25, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson talks on the telephone at his Texas ranch while First Lady Lady Bird Johnson consults a newspaper nearby. During his first Christmas as commander-in-chief, the president made both personal and business phone calls to friends, professional associates, and former presidents.

In this photograph, taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on December 1, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson sits in the Cabinet Room as he meets with representatives of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, a two hundred mile waterway approved by Congress in 1946 to facilitate trade across the borders of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. The waterway was completed in 1984.

In this photograph, taken in the Oval Office by Yoichi Okamoto on June 10, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson visits with U.S. Representative Michael J. Kirwan, a Democrat from Ohio. The figure in the foreground had been loaned to the president for 30 days, and Kirwan had come to pick it up from the president. Kirwan served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 until his death in 1970 .

In this photograph, taken by Yoichi Okamoto at the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas on August 27, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson catches up with work on his sixtieth birthday in the pool with his dog Yuki and grandson Patrick L. Nugent. The President's home is now known as the Texas White House, and is part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park.

In this photograph, taken in the Oval Office circa 1963 by Yoichi Okamoto, President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks over the telephone while watching live news coverage on three television sets he had installed in the office. Next to the television cabinet sits a wire service that printed a running stream of ticker tapes with the latest news.

This black and white photograph by Yoichi Okamoto shows President Lyndon Johnson holding two of his family's pet beagles, Him and Her, in his lap in the Cabinet Room.

In this photograph, taken by Yoichi Okamoto on February 9, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Special Assistant for National Security Affairs Walt W. Rostow and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to discuss the military situation in South Vietnam.

This photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson "singing" with his dog Yuki, was taken on January 30, 1968 in the Oval Office by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce enjoys the spectacle. Yuki, a mixed breed, was found by Luci, Johnson's daughter on Thanksgiving Day in 1966. His name means "snow" in Japanese.

In this photograph, taken in the Oval Office by Yoichi Okamoto on April 26, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson reads a printout from the wire service ticker tapes while his beagles, Him and Her, play behind him. Johnson had the wire service tickers installed in the Oval Office to print a running news stream in an effort to stay informed.

This candid photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson was taken on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1965. The Johnsons are in the private rooms of the White House residence preparing to attend the inauguration. Chief Justice Earl Warren would administer the presidential oath of office at 12:03 p.m. before a crowd estimated to be between 1.2 to 1.5 million people. During the ceremony, First Lady Johnson would become the first wife to hold the bible for her husband.

This photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson "singing" with his dog Yuki, was taken on January 30, 1968 in the Oval Office by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Yuki, a mixed breed, was found by Luci, Johnson's daughter on Thanksgiving Day in 1966. His name means "snow" in Japanese.

This photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert C. Weaver was taken by Yoichi Okamoto on February 12, 1968. Weaver was the first African-American to hold a Cabinet position during a presidential administration and was also the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Johnson signed the Act which created the department on September 9, 1965, and Weaver assumed his duties as Secretary on January 18, 1966.