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

Foster Dulles, a letter which, when it got into the public domain--how it did is not altogether clear. But he wrote this letter to John Foster Dulles taking a very strong stand on it. You know, I'm under the impression that Jim Rowe was the original

of the Suez Crisis. or 1957? It doesn't matter. I'm Was that 1956 But I think it was either in 1957 or 1958 he wrote a letter to [John Foster] Dulles on the whole Middle Eastern question and the Israeli question, which had considerable impact. I'm a bit

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

policies were fairly well followed. Eisenhower's main lightning rod I always thought was John Foster Dulles. That was one of the master strokes of the whole Eisenhower Administration. always walking up to the brink. You know, Dulles was I think

was a rather warm, simpatico man, unlike his brother. He did not have that aloofness and that hard-shell aspect to him that John Foster did. So he and Allen got along pretty well. G: Okay. The next day you flew with him to Hyannis Port to meet with Kennedy
Allen Dulles' 1960 visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's visit with JFK in Hyannis Port following the 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's attempts to identify with farmers on the campaign trail; Congress' inability to make progress in the session

if anything happened. not have the binding force of NATO. It did I myself believe that it was something that was done by John Foster Dulles and some of those people because they wanted to put together the outline of a coherent foreign policy. They probably

. 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
for the presidential nomination; JFK’s campaign; civil rights bill; U-2 incident and LBJ’s reaction to it; the federal pay raise; the Sugar Act; Medicare; pre-convention campaign trip opening and closing of national campaign headquarters; John Connally and the campaign

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

Reedy -- XX -- 2 R: Oh, it could have gone either way. My hunch is that I think the committee probably requested him. I don't know but I imagine that's so. There's no formal record of who asked whom. G: Do you recall his reaction to swearing in [John
LBJ's and Reedy's assessment of Senator John Tower from Texas; Pakistan President Ayub Khan’s personality; LBJ's vice presidential trips to Berlin, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Paris; LBJ's lack of familiarity with other

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

he woke up in the morning. And he liked to have a big stack of stuff to read the last thing before going to sleep at night. And ev~n in the White House, sometimes there'd be a frantic search for material. If there'd been a dull day I think

Telephone conversation # 3913, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/26/1964, 11:24AM (Item)

REEDY ASKS ABOUT TOPICS FOR HIS MORNING PRESS BRIEFING; LBJ DOES NOT WANT PUBLICITY FOR HIS UPCOMING POLITICAL SPEECHES; ARRANGEMENTS FOR PRESS IN DETROIT; POSSIBILITY OF LBJ CANCELLING TRIP TO MAYO CLINIC; LBJ'S MEETING WITH ALLEN DULLES

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