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Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of It was the only Democratic paper in Boston, and everyone thought that Joseph P. Kennedy--Jack Kennedy's father--was going to buy it. So every day I thought that this young Congressman was going to be my publisher's son tomorrow. So necessarily I paid a lot
Reference File, "Whistle Stop -1964 ("Lady Bird Special," 10/6-9)" (Item)
  • cities and a campaign of vitriol by racist Alabama Governor George Wallace, a Demoetat who challenged Johnson in several primaries. LBJ, who assumed the presidency on the death of John F. Kennedy the year before, was running fot election in his own right
Reference File, "Whistle Stop -1964 ("Lady Bird Special," 10/6-9)" (Item)
  • cities and a campaign of vitriol by racist Alabama Governor George Wallace, a Demoetat who challenged Johnson in several primaries. LBJ, who assumed the presidency on the death of John F. Kennedy the year before, was running fot election in his own right
Folder, "Whistle Stop [1 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)
Folder, "Whistle Stop [4 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)
  • -:aitin r-,irs. Jm-n.es L. r.::1rtin is a younc; houseuife all her volunteer time these uho is ::;pendin~; dnys in an unuGUal comb:tnation of church and country. Iler !'converslOD" to this the assassination 01· President neu emphasis Kennedy last
Folder, "Whistle Stop [2 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)
  • MOBILE, ALA. -- Has commendable fashion. praiseworthy person. recently begun school desegregation Its present Mayor, Joseph Langan, in a very is a THE LADY BIRD SPECIAL October 6-9, 1964 ROUTE: The train covered eight otatec -- Virginia, North
Folder, "Schedules and lists for 1964 Whistle Stop," Bess Abell Files, White House Social Files, Box 34 (Item)
  • . during a Savannah stop, the home of Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. she will visit In Mobile, Alabama, Mrs. Johnson has accepted the invitation of Mayor Joseph N. Langan to dedicate a 100-year old firehouse which is part of a restoration
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • for increased assistance for higher education and most specifically for a m u ch broadened educational vocational program. 1 am sure 1 do not have to tell you -- who sit here watching launchings at Cape Kennedy - - how tremendous our scientific achievements have
Folder, "Whistle Stop [6 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)
  • their husbands make the pitch for votes. The "family type" of campaign now under way is a natural out­ growth of the 1960 Kennedy campaign. The late President'• brother, and sisters and mother constantly spoke in his behalf. • .iacl
Folder, "Correspondence re Whistle Stop 1964," Bess Abell Files, White House Social Files, Box 34 (Item)
  • in November. I person~~ worked for Preoident Johnson during the last c~mpaign, organizing motorcades, sti,ffing the Kennedy-Johnson Headquarters (which my husband a nd I opened o.nd mainta.ined, due to the lack of nemocr· tic Organization in our area) and I
Folder, "Railroad, details for 1964 Whistle Stop," Bess Abell Files, White House Social Files, Box 34 (Item)
  • California FREE! some autographed copies of "A Tribute to John F. Kennedy" by Pierre Salinger & Sander Van.ocur will be given away at each station.! Redding--Leave 10:00 A. M. Red Bluff 10:35-10:50 Chico 11:30-11:50 Gridley 12:15-12:30 Marysville 12
Folder, "Whistle Stop [3 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)
  • traveled 35,000 miles in 71 days to campaign for the Kennedy- She is an enthusiastic Democrat be­ cause, "It's the party with the most heart and willingness to take a look at change and the most capable of coping with the big challenges of history