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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Austin and then spoke on the steps of the Capitol and then on to Fort Worth and then to Dallas, and then LBJ introduced JFK at the Dallas auditorium. Anything on any of these particular stops? R: No, except they were much more successful than anyone had

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

flew to Fort Worth with him to be with Amon Carter, and then he met with Sarah Hughes and spoke to the Texas Bar Association. This was right around the time of Sarah Hughes' nomination as a federal judge. R: Again, I mean this was just a routine

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there, because the Trinity River is probably the most impor tant in Texas in a sense because of what it does. It hits Fort Worth, it hits Dallas, it goes through some of the richest land of Texas, and it's probably the most important waterway the state has. G

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they had ever flown the Cypriot flag. An interesting sidelight, by the way, is that the Cypriots didn't have a national anthem. And so you get into this customary thing, the exchanges of national anthems. They had a band there that could play "The Star

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: The SEATO treaty did come up- R: Yes. G: --during that time when he was gone. Do you recall the debate surrounding it? R: Not much, because it wasn't worth recalling. Almost everybody that looked at the SEATO treaty recognized very quickly

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Indiana. His name was [John Worth] Kern; he was from Wilson would send a message up to Congress. a Democratic caucus. Kern could call He could always get a 51 per cent vote in the Democratic caucus, and since the Democrats controlled the Senate

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no anti-MacArthur sentiment in the country worth noticing. Only one man in the entire Senate had enough intestinal fortitude to get up and make speeches in the Senate attacking Mact\rthur. That v;as Bob Kerr. tility in the gallery. Boy, you could just

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

worth a candle. I think that he really He thought that the only way he could get any meaningful negotiations in Viet Nam was if he took himself out of the political arena, and I think that's right. I don't believe he could ever have brought

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he was going to win so easy in 1964. It wasn't even worth the contest. It was almost too bad that we had to spend the money on the campaigns and on the election. (Interruption) --part of a series of memos that Buz [Horace Busby] wrote to them, all

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 13 G: Task Fort Smith--or, no, later, after the Inchon-- R: Yes. The initial thing was brilliant, his initial landing, but the follow-up was not. Our troops proceeded up the valleys, leaving the North

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to explain some thing, I like to go back and explain why. very impatient. Something that always made him He had some remark once that he was afraid to ask me the time because he might get a lecture in the sidereal movement of the stars

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did get a peek at it and decided that it wasn't worth all the Sturm und Orang, but that's a dim memory on my part. I know that in the long run of history it's not going to make any difference. G: There was another report, as I recall, by Johns

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- XXVII -- 11 approve federal payments of those outrageous wages. And Johnson made a public announcement that the whole question had been turned over to me. Well, I immediately got flooded with telegrams, et cetera, from labor and from the [National

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the support of Eugene Pulliam, didn't he, the publisher of the Indianapolis [Star] and Arizona [Republic]--? R: Oh, he already had that. He already had that. I don't know how he got Pulliam originally, because he certainly did not stand for a single thing