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  • at the Senate. I remember the day very well, February 20. It may have been the twenty-second, but I believe it's the twentieth. F: Where are we now in time? D: We are now in 1960. Everybody flocked to this party. Liz Carpenter was in some capacity
  • , party tours for the women. parties. I \'ient on all of those. of course, Liz Carpenter and Nrs. Johnson were the primary movers. I \'ient representing the Democratic National Committee as one of the workers on it. on it. was Did you help set them up
  • , 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
  • 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
  • with the Johnsons. Liz and Les Carpenter carne out to do an interview for Collierls, and I remember in the pictures so they were there for the interviel", Dorothy Nichols, G!ynn.·' LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • . I remember Mrs. Carpenter was there and Lady Bird, and so on. But, of course, he didn't have as much time then as we used to have, but he never lost contact with him, ever. And he carne to Mr. Fore's funeral. M: Yes, I've read that. Was Mr
  • 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
  • to this story. A fellow stopped and watched the carpenter and said, "What is this going to be?" "Well," he said, "This is going to be a 'Chic' Sale outhouse," and [the fellow] said, "Well, what is it going to be--a two-holer or a one-holer?" "Oh, my Lord
  • the side of a hotel, and I said, to the carpenter there, "Sir, if you'll tear it off real easy, I'll give you a dollar for it ." � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories