Ruffles and Flourishe Author:Liz Carpenter Liz Carpenter's job in the White House, as Staff Director and Press Secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, was to keep five hundred news-hungry reporters happy and the image of the First Family unscathed; handle twelve jangling telephone lines; help arrange and produce Mrs. Johnson's whistle-stop tours and safaris; write speeches and collaborate with s... more »peech writers; cope with intellectuals, artists and the stars of stage and screen; live through White House luncheons, dinners and weddings and hang onto her sense of humor.
In this lively chronicle of behind-the-scenes life in the White House during the Johnson Administration, the wittiest woman in the Great Society entourage tells it the way it was, with ready laughter and a few fleeting tears. It is possible to experience with her "the tingling that comes with the first gripping notes of 'Ruffles and Flourishes,' followed by 'Hail to the Chief,' " and to hear the heart of history beat.
Excellent for age, paper jacket has some wear and mends.« less