40 trips; Discover America; LBJ’s trip to Senegal while VP; Cadillac diplomacy; JFK approved LBJ’s approach on trips; Ayub Khan told LBJ that Russians would be testing JFK in international area; Ayub Khan’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; camel-driver incident; Lady Bird served fruit and vegetables of Texas to visiting guests; Lady Bird was LBJ’s goodwill ambassador; Lady Bird flew in the same plane as the press; logistical problems of getting stories in; Lady Bird’s gift for phrase-making; White House Female Press Corps; titles for trips’ borrowed staff; harmonious working relationship between Udall and Lady Bird; White House Press; Big Bend trip; first member of a Presidential family to visit John Adams home in Quincy, MA; Latin American diplomats visit to LBJ Ranch; Padre Island; no partisanship; last trip; planning and scheduling trips; Lady Bird’s interest in certain legislation; civil rights questions; ghetto problems; newspaper women appreciate and archivist First Lady; Lady Bird understood AM and PM deadline; press leaks.
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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-carpenterl-19690515-3-74-193-c