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Liz Carpenter (1920-2010) was a writer, feminist, and political advisor to the Johnsons. She was the first woman executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the first professional newswoman to be press secretary to a first lady.
Journalist, vice-presidential advisor, White House official, author, humorist, political activist, and feminist leader—hers is the story of blazing professional trails while pushing forward an agenda for women’s rights, political engagement, and the environment that remains highly relevant today.
Mar 21, 2010 · Liz Carpenter, who spent much of her life working the corridors of power in Washington as a newspaper reporter, an aide to Lyndon B. Johnson when he was vice president and press secretary to Lady...
Mar 24, 2024 · Liz Carpenter is one of those Texas pioneers whose name doesn’t ring out quite the way it should. She was one of the first women to cover politics in the nation’s capital, breaking into a boys’...
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Mar 22, 2010 · Liz Carpenter, who served as Lyndon B. Johnson's executive assistant when he was vice president and later as Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary, died on Saturday. She was...
Mar 21, 2010 · Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin, Texas, hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her...
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Sep 1, 2020 · Liz Carpenter was all those things, and more. She was born in Salado, Texas, on Sept. 1, 1920, a fifth-generation generation Texan who counted among her forebears a Texas Declaration of Independence writer and another who died at the Alamo (after her death at age 89 in 2010, her New York Times obituary got a couple of details wrong).
