A warm and tender story of a simple girl who found adventure in the White House. "Liz Carpenter describes the hectic and often hilarious behind-the-scenes activity required to set up a whistlestop campaign; visit an inner-city Head Start center; tour a national park via whitewater raft; or undertake any other activity that promoted conservation of the environment, public education, or LBJ's presidency. Carpenter also describes White House social...

"The book is primarily a picture book based on eulogies and quotations in the course of the funeral, and therefore the quotations were limited to those which illustrated the photographs. They are only a small sample of the vast reservoir of material written about a man who spent 37 years in public life from the New Deal to the Great Society."--From the foreword.