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  • their names were. Actually, I thought I was just functioning as a chauffeur to bring the boys up. But about five minutes after the dinner had begun, Liz Carpenter carne out and said, "Mrs. Johnson wants you to be master of ceremonies." PB: P: Liz
  • 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
  • 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
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
  • to me to make And I always kept hoping he would leak something, but he never did. F: Stay in touch. W: I'm trying to recall what these circumstances were. was working for him then. Liz Carpenter And he began to tell me, in typically overwhelming
  • --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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 And the utilities in my section of the country like TP&L, were very cooperative with rural electrification. Mr. Carpenter and Bill Lynch were the ones who were running
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
  • 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
  • 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