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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • jotted down a statement for him to say in this meeting with President Kennedy and other advisers. Well, you know, I was bowled over. One, I'm not that smart, but I strained every bit of gray matter that I could to produce. I don't know whether
  • . Shriver and Ethel Kennedy to Texas; LBJ’s ability to recall names; 1960 election night; began working for LBJ when VP.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a moment--two things on this particular incident. One is that in the papers following the assassination of President Kennedy for some time into the Johnson Administration the pundits invariably said that Secretary Udall would be the first to go. until
  • Evolving of Lady Bird’s role as First Lady; handled all speech invitations; beginning of beautification idea; Sharon Francis; beautification efforts; Walter Washington; planting of Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; billboards; LBJ’s interest
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy wanted the vice president to represent him, right? C: Right at the independence of an African Republic--Senegal. dent asked me to go along. of two or three people. And the Presi­ We took a plane and a congressional delegation I remember
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • -access admission to the public papers, many of which are very private papers, of the people involved in governing in high places in Congress, as well as the White House? LC: I think he had people on his staff, like Juanita Roberts, who were goading him
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Ms. Carpenter's home in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, let's start off talking about the reaction to the book on the Kennedy assassination particularly
  • on beautification program; Maxine Cheshire; Ambassador Adlai Stevenson’s relationship with the First Family; Rene Verdon; suggestions on gifts; A White House Diary; LBJ Ranch and the Hill Country; Hirschon collection; letter from Jackie Kennedy to Lady Bird put up
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And the Catholics are a union all their own. She got thousands-­ literally thousands--of postcards and letters welcoming her to the club. We got very few against. I think that, one, Kennedy's election as a Catholic made it safe for anybody in any religion
  • Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.