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Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • behind the car that we were on. We were going very slowly because the crowds were so large. And Liz Carpenter jumped out of the press car and ran into Harris', which is one of our big, big department stores where we turned to go down to the municipal
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over the kitchen and putting in some better sinks and tile, formica. Mrs. Hanks lingered a few days and I had a luncheon for her with some of the old faithfuls, Mrs. Harvey Young of the Texas State Society, and Liz Carpenter and some of my Senate
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • on, there was a banquet given by the Texas Exes in early March, honoring you, on March the second. Do you remember anything about that? J: No, but I'd lay a bet that Scooter Miller had a lot to do with it--(Laughter)--and that Liz Carpenter probably helped her. I
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was born on the 15th of November. After the second child she decided it was time to go back to work and she went to work at the Democratic National Committee in the speech writing department. Liz Carpenter was writing speeches and working with Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in. It was not racially oriented. Today if you asked for a hundred billion dollars from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, they'd ask for it for blacks or maybe Hispanics. Or if Liz [Carpenter] were part of it, it would also have to be for women. G: Well
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • mention. thinking of the White House Festival. I was That, of course, was before you came there, the Eartha Kitt incident. H: Of course the Eartha Kitt incident was pretty much away from our office. Liz Carpenter and her people had that problem
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the same room at Salado, Texas, that the very well known Liz Carpenter--who was Mrs. Johnson's press secretary--was bOrn in. lineage. Both of them came from distinguished Texas But I was the son of a Marine officer who, together with my mother, lived
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So we walked in over at The Tavern, still not having heard from the Humphreys and having this long "oh, hurt job from the President ." I'm so We got over there and Liz Carpenter was already there, which struck me as a little odd because I was just
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Johnson ran. That's right. G: Symington ran in 1960, too. S: Did he? G: Yes. Liz Carpenter reported at the time that there was a reporter from Orlando, Florida, who wrote a-- S: Martin Anderson. Martin Anderson was a good friend of mine and a great
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; enlargement of Council on Recreation; "Treaty of the Potomac;" conserving land in Alaska and the western U.S.; Wilderness Act; President's Council on Recreation and Natural Beauty; DOT Organic Act; Mrs. Combe; beautification work; Sharon Francis; Liz Carpenter
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Babe Smith and Martin Hyltin and A. W. Moursund. They'd come up to town at least once every spring. John Connally was in and out quite a lot. We'd see something of Eliot Janeway, and Liz and Les [Carpenter], a dinner at our house or at theirs. I
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Liz Carpenter, our personal friend, also my wife's classmate in the University of Texas, was very helpful in arranging those things at the White House. M: Have you had any contact with President Johnson since he is retired? N: Not one squib. I
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that she did deal directly with John Kluczynski.Was that his name? O: I don't recall that specifically, but she dealt directly with any number of members. G: Did she enlist her friends in this effort? O: Yes. There were friends, Liz Carpenter
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and of course we never have really succeeded on a trip other than the one up to the Statue of Liberty, with the President . But with Mrs . Johnson, when I've had the same relationship with Liz [Carpenter], we've worked up all the trips, like down to the Big Bend
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over at his apartment . It'd be Walter and sometimes Cliff, and George Reedy, me, and Liz Carpenter . Frequently, while we were eating fruit or canteloupe or something, he'd say, "I just don't know . remember one incident . . . ." I They had
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • believe you had. J: Well, after the Lady Bird Special and after the elections of 1964, I was in the army and had been at Fort Benning, Georgia, and Liz Carpenter, who was on Mrs. Johnson's staff, wrote a letter to Jack Valenti after the November
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to you about that picture that's in my bedroom there, because there's something that I hate to tell you about it, but my conscience makes me tell you about it, because I don't like her, never did like her. But Liz Carpenter and Les wrote an article back
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • come out: Mrs. [Evelyn] lincoln was there; liz Carpenter was there; Pam Turnure was there; and Marie Fehmer and other gals were there. They were all doing what I should have been doing, just sitting down and crying. was busy. But I I got met
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • have done more of, obviously, since it meant so much to the children. M: Here's where--since we are going through this chronologically--here's where Liz Carpenter shows up for the first time, as a reporter. Did you know her well as a reporter, when
  • vacation to Daytona Beach; getting to know Liz and Les Carpenter; James Forrestal; Dale and Virginia "Scooter" Miller; Lynda's experience with a cotillion for congressional children; Mrs. Johnson's impressions of President Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's view
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the lady who took Mrs. Carpenter's place. word came back~ I%:~ I va They checked it out, and got those three hundred thousand copies that the White House Historical has paid for, and you don't have a new one. We want a new one, too. It's going to take
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? A: The day after Christmas we got on a Jetstar and went down to the Ranch with several other people. Liz Carpenter was on the plane, Pierre Salinger, Pierre's secretary. Pierre dictated constantly the whole time, thanking everybody for Christmas presents
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in there to Liz Carpenter, and I said, "Liz, things are pretty calm around here, but you did tell me that if I'd ever hear anything unusual to let you know," and I said, "It was kind of funny last week"--and I told her. I wrote the whole story of this man falling
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of those many things that my lively friend, [Virginia] Scooter Miller, got me in to. Scooter was just as adventurous and just as determined as Liz [Carpenter]. And I was crazy about her; so was nearly everybody else. She knew 1 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on. Later on when Liz Carpenter had her appendix out he sent her a note and said, "Be absolutely certain you don't show that scar to anybody"-(Laughter) 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into that. No, but he had lines to Lady Bird and Liz [Carpenter] and Bess [Abell] and all over the White House. You know, one of the great stories is he used to--while Lyn would come into the office, the buttons were on a panel and Lyn thought the panel was just great
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • : Yes. M: What was it, 206 extra names, something like that, that gave Lyndon an 87-vote margin? B: Well, you know, I wrote an account of this several years ago and sent it to the [LBJ] Library, sent it to Liz Carpenter. It's just exactly how
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • who are there but whom we haven't been able to put our fingers on. can do that for me. You If you don't get the proper kind of response from me, take it up with Lady Bird because she and Liz Carpenter mount that door all the time, and put
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? H: I was told that, but I seem to forget. preface my remark about that. responsible. I don't want to--I want to Someone told me that they were Now I don't know who it was. Was it Bess Abell, or Liz Carpenter, or Stewart Udall, Secretary
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was furious about it. He called up the guy who had been sort of the intermediary in arranging the appointment and said something to the effect, ''Well, thanks a lot, buddy." And Liz Carpenter, I remember running into somewhere and she just turned her back
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • him on these things should know and didn't. P: Have you talked with Mrs. Johnson at all? S: No, not at all. I have dealt with Liz Carpenter [Press Secretary and Staff Director for First Lady) and Christine Stugard [Staff Assistant for Social