Ruffles and Flourishes Author:Liz Carpenter As Staff Director and Press Secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, Liz Carpenter had the job of keeping five hundred news-hungry reporters happy and the image of the First Family unscathed. — In performs her often frazzling duties, she handled twelve telephone lines, arranged and produced Mrs. Johnson's whistlestop tours, wrote speeches, lived throu... more »gh White House luncheons, dinners-and weddings. Withal, Liz the Whiz managed to hand onto to her sense of humor.
In this lively chronicle of behind-the-scens life in the White House, the wittist woman in the Great Society entourage tells it the way ti was, with ready laughter and a few fleeting tears.« less