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TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIII -- 16 G: Now, I think it was the columnist David Lawrence who came out and said that Johnson

criticized the Democrats who he claimed were kissing the administration, Eisenhower, on both cheeks. R: Yes, he did. 22 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
LBJ and the Majority Leadership and various Senate activities, 1955; committee assignments; LBJ and Drew Pearson; LBJ and the oil industry; foreign aid; LBJ and organized labor; Paul Butler; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ's heart attack; Whitney speech

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

come down that that statement is going to be there." After that I al ways left one for him. There are more people involved than that. Johnson also brought in the top staff people on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee: Don Cook, Gerry Siegel, David

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

efficient. For those machines, your communications were totally irrelevant. But by the time he became president, the machines were pretty well dead. [Richard J.] Daley was still alive; [David] Lawrence was still working, but the rest were pretty well gone

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

you recall an example of this kind of--? R: Well, the best example was landing in an air field in Boise, Idaho, after the Walter Jenkins case had broken. And in talking to the press he made some remark about President Eisenhower having had

Telephone conversation # 1848, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 2/3/1964, 6:40PM (Item)

BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; NY HERALD TRIBUNE STORY ON EISENHOWER'S STATEMENT ABOUT GIFTS

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me start with a general question about 1953. Eisenhower Administration has come in. Of course, the I wanted
Senate activities and LBJ; the Eisenhower Administration, 1953

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

: Early on, Stewart Alsop reported in his column that LBJ was circula ting a memorandum among fellow Democrats to lay out a plan of party strategy, and this was the plan that the Democrats would not categor ically oppose the Eisenhower Administration. R

Eisenhower or something, he would deliberately leave the leader's seat and go to the back of the chamber and take some desk there to make his speech opposing Eisenhower. The man was very rigid. Russell once said of him that he walks 1ike he thinks, or he

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XII -- 4 too bad~ These were the hearings, by the way, out of which grew Kennedy's missile gap charge during the 1960 campaign, which was not true. G: There was no missile gap. Did Eisenhower

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

that the Administration itself--the Eisenhower Administration--was not aware of just what they were proposing with that Title III; there were some pecu liarities in the indexing of laws that made it very difficult to find out exactly what Title III meant--they weren't

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

it was never entirely clear whether there genuinely was a threat to the peace in the Middle East at that point. The real problem was that Eisenhower thought there was or at least asked Congress for some sort of backing, some sort of action. Johnson always

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

and a whole crew lobbying at one point. Johnson looked at McCarthy, and he walked over to him, and he said: "Joe, would you really like to screw Eisenhower, and screw him good?" Joe was real mad at the President at that point. And of course By God

a very long-range effect upon Johnson•s political fortunes, too. He had always had a strong following in the Jewish section of the United States, but I think this solidified it. Then he also played quite a role during the era when Eisenhower decided

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there, it was about time to open up the whole atomic energy process to private develop ment. And it was time, there's no question about that. Up to that point it had been solely and simply a military project. Now, Eisenhower sent up a bill which to the liberals

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that actually all Johnson was doing in Texas was fighting a rear guard action to prevent the loss from being too great. God, you couldn't have beaten Eisenhower in Texas. He was born there for one thing. G: Johnson seems to have tried to deflect attention

Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance

-- 17 up this committee to make it independent of the president but still a committee which would feed advice into the president and have some influence on him. And Eisenhower decided he did not want that committee to be under anybody else

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

and Muttnik first went up. Then later he was chairman of the committee that hammered out the bill. He was outer space, really. Without him I don't think we would have gone along nearly as fast as we did. You may remember, Eisenhower was very skeptical

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

swallow that. The Republicans were in great glee. That was socialized Homer Capehart prepared an amendment to reduce the six-hundred thousand housing units to thirty thousand, which had been recommended by Eisenhower. assumed that Johnson was going

chairman. Well, Eisenhower for some reason that I don't understand, insisted on being chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Outer Space. And so, that was--we gave in to them simply to be sure that we could get the bill through the Congress. One

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

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