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  • , 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
  • after he was elected vice president and I had not supported him for the presidential nomination in 1960, I went up to see him and said, IILook, you Ire the vice president, and 11m with you and I will work with you a hundred per cent. II Liz Carpenter, I
  • these guys went out and just worked like hell for him. ;: . .. You had an anecdote you were going to tell. Yes. i: Yes. . .. If you get a chance, read Liz Carpenter's book. Did you read about men who make advances? Have you read
  • to Washington when Johnson was vice president I went to a party one evening out at Liz Carpenter's house. I had not long before read Ted White's book, The Making of a President, 1960, and he has in there a version of how the Johnson selection as vice president
  • officials who were indicted and convicted and the president of Carpenters Union was convicted. They were playing fast and loose with union funds, and some of the unions were doing all sorts of things. been investigating. And the McClellan Committee had