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- things as we went in, nothing of great importance. We went directly to the Texas Hotel and up to the suite that the Vice President had there. I remember that we sat and talked, it was just a small group of us. It was Cliff Carter and Liz Carpenter
- --it's an old trite saying that you hear very often now--that was where the action was in politics. So I began to work for Leslie Carpenter, who still is a correspondent in Washington for several newspapers. F: Including the Austin American-Statesman. S
- with Johnson. And the new President of course wanted all of his people on--Liz Carpenter, everybody who was traveling with him. Then he authorized people like Jack Valenti who had simply been riding in the motorcade, didn't even have a toothbrush with him
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Liz Carpenter and Bess Abell, Willis Hurst, who was the President's doctor. It was really one of the funny, remarkable excur- sions that I think any government team ever made anywhere. couldn't do any harm. We knew we I mean, we weren't going to go