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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forget you start off with twenty-two votes from the ex­ Confederate states. Then you add to that Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, that's another eight [ten] votes, that gets you up to thirty [-two]. Then you pick up a few oddballs here
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a lot of those Irish politicians around: [Edward J.] Flynn up in the Bronx, Ed Kelly in Chicago, [Frank] Hague in New Jersey, all of the Irish pols up in Massachusetts. And boy, he used them. You see, in those days communications was only part of the 8
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The crowds turned out and they really throbbed to him. I remember the headline on the New York Daily News was "Veep Wows Them in Saigon." From a standpoint substantively, however, he sort of went overboard. You were asking me for examples of the sort
  • The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was overwhelming. There is no doubt about it. We had the mightiest air force on the whole globe, and the result was that because we had this heavy advantage, we did not explore a number of new directions that other nations did explore. The Russians, for example
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And from that I just slipped into the habit of writing him almost daily memoranda. G: Did he read them carefully? R: Oh yes. He had two rituals. And, Lord, they were set routines. He liked to have a stack of stuff to read alongside of his bed when
Telephone conversation # 5450, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/3/1964, 11:39AM (Item)
  • REEDY ASKS ABOUT REPORTS THAT LBJ WILL ADDRESS POLISH-AMERICAN ALLIANCE IN CHICAGO; LBJ DISCUSSES POLICY OF NOT ANNOUNCING APPEARANCES IN ADVANCE, ASKS ABOUT REACTION TO GOLDWATER'S STATEMENT ON NEW CHARGES IN BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION
Telephone conversation # 4903, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/13/1964, 10:32AM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH KEN O'DONNELL AT TIME OF CALL
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT RFK AND NEW YORK SENATE RACE; REEDY ASKS PERMISSION TO ANNOUNCE LBJ'S PARTICIPATION IN CHRISTENING OF SHIP, USS CASIMIR PULASKI
Telephone conversation # 5857, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 10/10/1964, 12:25PM (Item)
  • "F (LBJ)"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; OFFICE CONVERSATION WITH BILL MOYERS PRECEDES CALL
  • PRESS GUIDANCE FOR FINAL WEEKS OF CAMPAIGN; HECKLING OF LADY BIRD JOHNSON ON WHISTLESTOP TRIP; LBJ'S NEW ORLEANS SPEECH; DAVID RABINOVITZ WISCONSIN JUDGESHIP; HARRIS POLL; NIXON'S STATEMENTS; WHISTLESTOP PRESS COVERAGE; LUCI JOHNSON'S CAMPAIGN
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But at the beginning Johnson thought that he would take as many newspapermen with him as he possibly could, and actually it turned out that there were not very many that could go along. As I recall, Allen Duckworth from the Dallas News [and] Maggie [Margaret] Mayer, I
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that meant that every single one of his news columns would be devoted to you. And if he was against you, that meant every single one of his news columns would be against you. And you know, the Texas press could go pretty far in those days. I'll never forget
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • inspiration for that letter. worth checking out. I'm not sure of that, but it's If you find the letter, I think the letter first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. G: Was Johnson upset about the leak of it? R: Not really. He said that he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time. R: Well, the problems which we encountered at Chicago had already begun before we went to Chicago, and I trace a lot of them to that session that we discussed in our earlier meeting where he was so rude and loutish to the members of the labor
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and stay in the Waldorf­ Astoria Hotel in New York City"--how the Waldorf got into it I don't know! Well, he didn't think too much of it at the time, but later on after we returned to the United States we got an almost panicky cablegram from the American
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1917 in Chicago-­ R: East Chicago, Indiana--it's in a different state. B: And became the United Press' Congressional correspondent in 1938--from '38 to '41--in Air Force service, 1942-45; and then again after the war from '46 to '51 with UP
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 2 R: Oh, sure. It's rather strange. I've got to recapitulate the background here. One night Dave Broder, the Washington reporter for the Dallas News--I think you have
  • of producing a unanimous committee report; problems in the New England watch-making industry; Reedy's concern that committee staff were taking on investigations without appropriate jurisdiction or resources; problems with government bureaucracy; trying
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . One rather bad deal was Hubert Humphrey. Hubert almost got euchred into [out of?] being the candidate out at Chicago. But Johnson was blowing hot and blowing cold on Hubert. I think Hubert could have made it with a little more cooperation. But he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • flight, and LBJ went to New York with the Glenns for a ticker-tape parade after that. Any recollections of that? R: Nothing that is of any great importance; it went off according to schedule. I think that's the main thing that I remember
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mixed up on dates at this point, but-­ G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to refresh my recollections. G: LBJ moved into that new office, the Capitol office, P-38. Let me ask you to just describe it and the circumstances around his acquiring that office. R: I'm not too sure of the circ1.111stances under which he acquired
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He was pounding on the table and saying, "You men have got to realize that there is a new force sweeping this country." Whew! I could almost hear the knives being sharpened. He made one very bad mistake. This was in a closed hearing. I wasn't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; God, it was effective. It was effective. G: His [October 9, 1964] speech in New Orleans was a very good-- R: The Johnson speech? G: Yes. R: Boy, that was great. G: Were you there for that? R: Goddamn right I was. I mean, the one--"nigger
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Republican party as an isolationist party, because after all you had that whole New England group with men in it like Saltonstall and Warren Austin, George Aikin, who also agreed very strongly with the foreign policy that had developed over the years
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Gentleman from Texas, well. This v1as the New York Daily 11 He wrote a piece called and I remember that piece very You say that it appeared about four weeks after the hearings? G: Yes. R: Same piece. I know what I'm talking about now. man's name
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the New Deal liberals. What was the significance of that? That was part of it, and part of it I think was a 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Tower as the new senator from Texas? R: Just swore him in. G: Yes. R: There were no-- G: He didn't comment on it later that day, nothing significant about Tower being--? R: No. Positively not. I think he just [says], "Here he is," so he swears
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clint Anderson of New Mexico. Do you have any kind of an account of what happened? G: Let's see. R: Well, it's irrelevant. That's easy enough to get. The important point was that while with those two amendments the important--all
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The workers in that industry are paid almost entirely on an hourly or a daily basis, because they don't work every day. This is one of the reasons, by the way, that the wage rates in the building trades industry are so terribly high. They look terribly high
Telephone conversation # 4315, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/23/1964, 10:50AM (Item)
  • LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT INACCURACIES IN PRESS STORIES; DISCUSSION OF TIMING OF PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW, ITEMS FOR INCLUSION: NEWS OF INCREASED AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS, STATEMENT ON VIETNAM, ECONOMIC NEWS FROM WALTER HELLER
Telephone conversation # 4215, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/10/1964, 8:42PM (Item)
  • REEDY SAYS HE TALKED TO FRANK CORMIER WHO IS CORRECTING AP PRESS STORY ABOUT ASSIGNMENT OF NEW PERMANENT FBI UNIT IN MISSISSIPPI
Telephone conversation # 3464, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/15/1964, 8:40PM (Item)
  • LIZ CARPENTER; PRESS COVERAGE OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN'S VISIT TO ALABAMA PROPERTY OWNED BY LADY BIRD JOHNSON; REEDY COMMENTS ON GENERAL QUALITY OF TV NEWS PROGRAMS
Telephone conversation # 4214, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/10/1964, 8:30PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS REEDY TO CORRECT AP 131 PRESS STORY ABOUT PERMANENT ASSIGNMENT OF NEW FBI UNIT TO MISSISSIPPI
Telephone conversation # 3684, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/11/1964, 3:10PM (Item)
  • OFFICE SECRETARY ASKS PERMISSION TO BRING IN RUSH MEMOS, NEW POLLS, THEN ANNOUNCES CALL FROM REEDY; REEDY ASKS LBJ'S PERMISSION TO BRING HUGH SIDEY IN TO DISCUSS ROLE OF RICHARD GOODWIN ON WH STAFF
Telephone conversation # 3758, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/17/1964, 6:36PM (Item)
  • PRESS STORY ABOUT RFK RIDING TO AIRPORT WITH LBJ IN NYC; JACK ROSENTHAL'S CALL TO REEDY RELAYING INQUIRY FROM DOM BONAFEDE ABOUT "JAMES H. ROWE" BEING REGISTERED AS LOBBYIST FOR HAITI SUGAR ORGANIZATION; JIM ROWE; NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, JOCK
Telephone conversation # 4922, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/14/1964, 2:40PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF QUESTION AT REEDY'S PRESS BRIEFING ABOUT LBJ'S CONVERSATION WITH NYC MAYOR ROBERT WAGNER, TOPICS INCLUDING RFK, NEW YORK SENATE RACE; REQUESTS FOR PRESS CONFERENCE WITH LBJ; LBJ CRITICIZES REEDY'S HANDLING OF PRESS BRIEFING; WH PRESS
Telephone conversation # 5421, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/2/1964, 11:40AM (Item)
  • REEDY ASKS LBJ FOR RESPONSE TO PRESS STORY THAT JACQUELINE KENNEDY WILL BE NAMED AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE; LBJ REPORTS SHE HAD TURNED DOWN APPOINTMENT AS AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO; PRESS QUESTIONS ABOUT NEW CHARGES IN BOBBY BAKER CASE, POLITICAL NATURE
Telephone conversation # 5451, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/3/1964, 11:39AM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF REACTION TO GOLDWATER'S STATEMENT ON NEW CHARGES IN BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; PRESS HANDLING OF LBJ'S MEETING WITH RFK TO ACCEPT HIS RESIGNATION AS ATTORNEY GENERAL; LBJ READS HIS LETTER TO RFK ACCEPTING RESIGNATION
Telephone conversation # 8122, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/10/1965, 9:40PM (Item)
  • UNTRUE PRESS STORY THAT LBJ PRESSURED ROBERT WAGNER TO RUN FOR 4TH TERM AS NYC MAYOR; JOHN MCNAUGHTON STATEMENT ON THAILAND; PRESS STORY THAT ASTRONAUTS WILL NOT VISIT LBJ RANCH; NEW YORK POLL; PLANS FOR HOUSTON SPACE CENTER TRIP; COMPLAINTS BY WH
Telephone conversation # 5243, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/28/1964, 1:31AM (Item)
  • New Jersey
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of meetings with members of the press. R: Oh, yes. G: Were they trying to get a perspective on Lyndon Johnson, a new President? Is this why they would come to you? R: Basically what they were up to, Mike--it's funny what a difference it makes
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which had to have something by about three or four o'clock in the afternoon. So we developed a little technique. I, or anybody that I could get to do it, would figure out some sort of a news lead and write out about eight paragraphs, sometimes less than