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  • Bio: Leslie Carpenter (1922-1974) was a journalist who operated the Carpenter News Bureau with his wife, Elizabeth S. Carpenter, representing national newspapers from 1945 to 1961. He was also a syndicated Washington correspondent from 1944 to 1974.
  • Carpenter, Leslie, 1922-1974
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, husband of Liz Carpenter
  • Bio: Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter (b. 1920) operated the Carpenter News Bureau with her husband, Leslie Carpenter, representing national newspapers from 1945 to 1961. She was an executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961
  • Carpenter, Liz, 1920-
  • later moved to the city desk, where she covered transportation issues that included development of the Metrorail system. She left the Star in 1980 to work for a year at the new U.S. Department of Education as a special assistant to Liz Carpenter