Martha Rountree - Assessments

Assessments

"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. “She won a wide audience by initiating a thoughtful debate of issues on the air before it became commonplace.”

Mrs. William Randolph Hearst described Rountree as “a diesel engine under a lace handkerchief.”