TY  - GEN
T1  - Washington's Iron Butterfly Bess Clements Abell, an oral history
T2  - Kentucky remembered.
A2  - Ritchie, Donald A., 1945-
A2  - Birdwhistell, Terry L.
A2  - Smith, Richard Norton, 1953-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1286947501
AB  - "Had Elizabeth "Bess" Clements Abell (1933-2020) been a boy, she would likely have become a politician like her father, Earle C. Clements. Effectively barred from office because of her gender, she forged her own path by helping family friends Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Abell's Secret Service code name, "Iron Butterfly," exemplified her graceful but firm management of social life in the Johnson White House. After Johnson's administration ended, she maintained her importance in Washington, DC, serving as chief of staff to Joan Mondale and cofounding a public relations company. Donald A. Ritchie and Terry L. Birdwhistell draw on Abell's own words and those of others known to her to tell her remarkable story. Focusing on her years working for the Johnson campaign and her time in the White House, this engaging oral history provides a window into Abell's life as well as an insider's view of the nation's capital during the tumultuous 1960s"--
CN  - E846 .W37 2022eb
SN  - 9780813182278
SN  - 0813182271
SN  - 081318228X
SN  - 9780813182285
SN  - 9780813182476
SN  - 0813182476
SN  - 9780813182261
SN  - 0813182263
KW  - Abell, Bess Clements, : 1933-2020 : Interviews.
KW  - United States. : White House Office : Officials and employees.
KW  - Johnson, Lady Bird, : 1912-2007 : Friends and associates.
KW  - Johnson, Lyndon B. : (Lyndon Baines), : 1908-1973 : Friends and associates.
KW  - Johnson, Lyndon B. : (Lyndon Baines), : 1908-1973
KW  - Johnson, Lady Bird, : 1912-2007
KW  - United States. : White House Office
KW  - Presidents : United States : Staff : Biography.
KW  - Social secretaries : Washington (D.C.) : Biography.
KW  - Washington (D.C.) : Social life and customs : 1951-
KW  - Kentucky : Biography.
KW  - Secrétaires privés : Washington (D.C.) : Biographies.
KW  - Washington (D.C.) : Mœurs et coutumes : 1951-
KW  - Kentucky : Biographies.
KW  - Political.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
KW  - Women.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Social secretaries
KW  - Presidents : Staff
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Employees
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - United States
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Since 1951
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Biographies
ER  -