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3 unusual facts about Martha Rountree


Martha Rountree

"I think of Martha as one of the most creative women I’ve ever known,” opined Liz Carpenter, the former White House staff director and press secretary of Lady Bird Johnson.

In the 60s, she served as Washington correspondent for New York's WOR radio and other stations.

She covered national conventions in the 1950s and 1960s, appeared as a guest on the Phil Donahue television talk show, led a national campaign in support of school prayer and testified before the 1988 Republican National Convention's Platform Committee.



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