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: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 9 II when they'd train some division and get it all set to go overseas, and then for some reason they couldn't send it overseas and the outfit would just fall to pieces and you'd have to start

Telephone conversation # 3498, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/25/1964, 12:02PM (Item)

ITEMS FOR PRESS BRIEFING: RESIGNATION OF JACK M. WHITNEY II FROM SEC; POLICY OF NOT ANNOUNCING RESIGNATIONS UNTIL SUCCESSOR NAMED; LBJ'S TRIP TO TEXAS THIS WEEKEND, SPEECH AT JOHNSON CITY HIGH SCHOOL, LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT TOO MANY REPORTERS

equipment at that point was not only World War II in terms of vintage, but World War II in terms of psychology. Our equipment was really designed to fight the Germans, to fight the Italians, to fight the Japanese. Well, Korea 11 LBJ Presidential Library
the military during the Korean War; the opinion that the U.S. was ill-equipped to fight the Korean War; morale problems with Korean War soldiers who were also World War II veterans; comparing U.S. and Soviet manpower and firepower; criticism of the U.S

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

to Paris again until this trip, because I was with him all those years. G: And then right at the end of World War II, I guess, he went for the first time. R: That's what I think may have been the other time. But if so, this would have been his third
in support of Henry Gonzalez's campaign for House of Representatives in 1961; LBJ's rapport with the Mexican people; traveling around the U.S. with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Styles Bridges; the China lobby and isolationists during World War II and later

Folder, "Dominican Republic," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)

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with NASA they'd be releasing stuff to the other services. The only commentary I would add is this. One of the things that happened to us was the same thing that happened to the Germans in World War II. That is, they started out with such an overwhelming
Ed Welsh and the adoption of a plan to land a man on the moon; early competition between military branches and their fear of releasing secrets to NASA; how U.S. dominance in air power during World War II led other countries to advance technology

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz

. There was a complication there, too. It had become unre spectable to be an isolationist after World War II, and yet there were an awful lot of people who were really isolationists and wanted to be isolationists. One of their ways of doing it was to support Chiang Kai

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

had well over a hundred members at the University of Chicago, and when you figure at the University of Chicago the total student population was six or seven thousand, that's pretty potent. After World War II there was a period when Russia was fairly

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to come down and meet with him in Georgia and they d idn t do it. I LBJ made the remark that II it I S my understand ing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

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

II. There were two or three other-people. They were extremely good, but what Johnson said to Russell in effect is that you need someone with a somewhat different approach toward these. He thought that there was a sort of investigation in which I

, there was another aspect of it, too. One of the things that has never been sufficiently explored is the fact that after World War II it became unfashionable to be an isolationist. Nobody wanted to be an isolationist because the isolationists were associated

World War II. In those days he was a liberal. What developed, he could never get out of the House as a liberal. represented a very strange district in southern Illinois. He He himself was from Peoria, and that district was rather liberal

very seriously considered. The assets that Jack had--and he had assets, no question about it--one, he was representing the World War II generation, which at that point was just reaching maturity. Two, he was Irish, Irish-Catholic, and the Irish

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