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Washington's Iron Butterfly Bess Clements Abell, an oral history / [edited by] Donald A. Ritchie and Terry L. Birdwhistell ; foreword by Richard Norton Smith.

"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...

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Other Authors: Ritchie, Donald A., 1945- (Editor), Birdwhistell, Terry L. (Editor), Smith, Richard Norton, 1953- (writer of foreword.)
Other title:Bess Clements Abell, an oral history.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2022]
Series:Kentucky remembered: an oral history series.
Subjects:
Abell, Bess Clements, > 1933-2020 > Interviews.
United States. > White House Office > Officials and employees.
Johnson, Lady Bird, > 1912-2007 > Friends and associates.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973 > Friends and associates.
Presidents > United States > Staff > Biography.
Social secretaries > Washington (D.C.) > Biography.
Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > 1951-
Kentucky > Biography.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Johnson, Lady Bird, > 1912-2007.
United States. > White House Office.
Social secretaries.
Presidents > Staff.
Manners and customs.
Friendship.
Employees.
Washington (D.C.)
United States.
Kentucky.
Interviews.
Biographies.

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