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Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. They would all route through Charlie, every written word would route through Charlie, to give it some sense of continuity . People were sending speeches directly to the President, or off to Liz Carpenter or other places, and nobody knew what had been

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

trust. They treated him as a usurper. Now I understand that the Honorable--wait a minute now, I'm getting old--who's the press secretary to- F: [Pierre] Salinger. C: No, the press secretary to Lady Bird. F: Oh. Liz Carpenter. C: Liz's book

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was bidding for the Johnson memoirs and Mrs. Johnson's stuff. And Liz Carpenter told the executive vice president of NAL that if they published our book, they wouldn't have a chance at the memoirs. M: Do you know whether or not this came from the family

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in honor of Erich Leinsdorf. Leinsdorf was conducting a symphony, and this was to be after the symphony. was a small party, and we went to their house. It Liz Carpenter seated us with LBJ at like card tables, just the four of us. we spent a long time

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was pretty much out of it. F: Did you see Johnson during the campaign? A: I saw him once or twice when he spoke in California. any extended conversations with him. I don't recall Liz Carpenter was working with him then and we talked some, but I don't

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in the first car and I was about three or four cars-because whenever there was an official ceremony like this the press people had to be up forward. Liz Carpenter was up forward, etc., and I always stayed out of the way. Oh, about eight miles out we began

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

was taken in ultimately by Liz Carpenter who had to show her White House pass, not her convention credentials, but her White House pass, to get in, so there was tension from this source. But this was a source tangential to the convention and not within

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

] 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

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

n k , very wisely staying out of all comment and all dealings with the press. M: Did you have any indication of any experience of frustration on Mr. Johnson's part about the impotency of the vice presidency? B: I had one. Liz Carpenter

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

been given the chance to exploit the War on Poverty and uplift itself, I bel ieve thi s country and the world wou ld be so much better off today. That was one of those disasters that befell the whole human race. Now Elizabeth Carpenter was up

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: In the case of the speeches that I did for him when he was Vice President as I remember, Mrs . Carpenter called me and told me what the speech was about and what the general guidelines would be and � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)