He saw Whittington working in a government office, and requested that his assistant Jack Valenti get her home phone number.

Johnson wanted to advertise the fact that he had hired a black woman, but chose not to call a news conference.

The mystery guest that evening was Van Heflin and the panel consisted of Arlene Francis, Steve Allen, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Bennett Cerf.

After her game, she described President Lyndon Johnson with the following words, "great warmth, fair, kind, a perfectionist."

She was the first person to learn that Justice Thurgood Marshall had been nominated by President Johnson to the Supreme Court.

Minutes before LBJ made the official announcement, he took his nominee down to her office and said, "Here's the next Supreme Court Justice!"