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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

it. Sometimes you need to drop it," but just sort of--well, he had been a former debate coach, and he liked teaching people; he did it all his life. (Laughter) And Liz [Carpenter] used to say so many things that were helpful. She said, "Just look right out
of the KTBC building in Austin; Lady Bird Johnson's impressions of George Reedy, Bill Moyers, Liz Carpenter, Walter Jenkins, Horace Busby, Mary Rather, and Juanita Roberts.

. You must have a lift at the end, and you must change pace, and you must give people time in between. Don't hurry to take in what you've said." Liz Carpenter used to always tell me, "Look at that audience out there. Remember a lot of them came from Dime

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XLIII -- 13 M: Was Liz Carpenter with you much on these trips? J: Yes, she was. She was one of chief architects. M: You know

every day taking my envelopes full of wallpaper samples and all sort of paint samples and Max Brooks' plans. Sometimes Max Brooks would go with me. We'd walk around all over the house with the carpenters and the workers here and there. Marcus Burg would

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

, 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, 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, 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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

number of newspaper people's houses, to the Carpenters' of course, and to Marshall McNeils'. And then the glittering side of life I got into by an occasional dinner at the F Street Club. Senator Millard Tydings, who was chairman of Lyndon's committee

Committee on Atomic Energy he made trips to Los Alamos and out to California, wherever the work was going on, to try to educate himself. I remember Liz Carpenter was a part of our lives then. She was representing a number of [Texas] papers in Washington

a meeting set up between Lyndon and Mr.--oh, what was that old gentleman's name who was head of one of the biggest private power companies and a man of very great prestige? G: John Carpenter? J: Yes, Mr. Carpenter. [He] got a meeting set up with him

that the NYA did that Lyndon just loved to pieces--learning carpentering, automobile mechanics and cooking for the women and beauty parlor work for the women. So, it was a long, long process, and it was very much a part of politics is the art of the possible

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. When I say the children, I mean like me, Luci and the Thornberrys and some of the little John Connally children and Christy. I know we have a picture upstairs with the Carpenters in it and the Barkleys and the Worleys and all these little [children

, gentle as could be. Her friends were our neighbors, our fellow members of the delegation's children: Molly Thornberry, Beth Jenkins, Lan and Lloyd Bentsen, Scott Carpenter. Rodney was there. He was the son, the adopted child of Josefa, who was living

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