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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That is, as I don't have to tell you, the President does--and the whole family-­ live in a fish bowl, and yet some things are theirs. C: Well, that was constantly the tightrope that a press secretary to a first lady walks, because the first lady
  • Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I got a job working for Esther Tufty. F: Who's she? C: Well, she's a newspaperwoman. F: How do you spell Tufty? C: T-u-f-t-y. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, known as the Duchess. I'd beaten the paths around the National Press Building, really
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • every day and I even begin to realize it in watching it unfold in the press, was simply that it was the best way in the Johnson Administration to underline a success story. The hardest thing to do is to get the success story told. F: How did you
  • incident; Lady Bird served fruit and vegetables of Texas to visiting guests; Lady Bird was LBJ’s goodwill ambassador; Lady Bird flew in the same plane as the press; logistical problems of getting stories in; Lady Bird’s gift for phrase-making; White House
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: -2­ http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] We gathered up a press plane, which we chartered
  • in beautification project; demonstrators; Head Start project; Women Doers Luncheon; Earth Kitt; press relations.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • . And the man who read that said that he felt that his eyes were the first to ever read those Sam Houston deals. DC: In trying, from a scholars point of view, to peel the layers free to get at the real sap within--I like that metaphor--the problem
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the letter to the Lyndon Johnson Library. F: Was there any sort of tacit order that came down from on high that the staff were not to make any public reaction to the press on the book? C: Not that I remember. Now, it's quite possible