Discover Our Collections


  • Contributor > Reedy, George E. (George Edward), 1917-1999 (remove)

49 results

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was a long, drawn-out very tricky battle, very tricky. G: Now, the Kennedy bill when it was first introduced was really sort of a mild labor-management reporting and anticorruption type bill. It 11 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 29, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Sheraton-Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start first with the Kennedy-Ives bill. We discussed that some last time but not in any
  • 1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • broadcasts into the Soviet Union. R: I remember now. He had accepted the speech, and I'm trying to remem­ ber now where the original invitation came from, whether it came from Eddie Weisl, or that may have been done through Eddie Joseph, I'm not quite
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • offending anti-Semites, but at the same time there were people like Eddie Joseph and the Marcuses, Stanley Marcus, there were a number of people of Jewish faith who held rather important positions in Texas. Actually, one of the strange things
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org - -----­ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XIV -- 10 post, and (Charles] Halleck defeated [Joseph] Martin
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting the amendments a little bit mixed up now. Anderson introduced the amendment to strike Title 3. duced the jury trial amendment, or was it set up by Johnson. 0 1 Mahone~ I think Kennedy intro­ Those things were I'd have to refresh my recollection
  • Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to Joseph
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • turn the task of handling the assignments over to the Steering Committee, because if he had, he would never have been able to get freshmen senators such as Kennedy and the others some of the positions that he got for them on major committees. tion
Telephone conversation # 2525, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 3/17/1964, 12:49PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 4122, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/2/1964, 12:09PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 4163, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/6/1964, 2:26PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 3852, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/23/1964, 5:00PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 3537, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/28/1964, 11:04AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Telephone conversation # 3647, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/9/1964, 12:31PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 3648, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/9/1964, 12:31PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 4274, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/19/1964, 1:02PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 3739, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/15/1964, 5:32PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Telephone conversation # 3758, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/17/1964, 6:36PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 3311, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/1/1964, 1:20PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Telephone conversation # 4922, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/14/1964, 2:40PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
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 # 4903, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/13/1964, 10:32AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 5176, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/25/1964, 11:06AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 6399, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 11/18/1964, 4:55PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Telephone conversation # 5611, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/19/1964, 1:45PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Telephone conversation # 6432, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 11/20/1964, 4:39PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Telephone conversation # 5451, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/3/1964, 11:39AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 5471, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/3/1964, 6:16PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XVIII -- 5 R: It shifted too much to be labeled that way, and by that time the press had reached a stage where it was changing assignments deliberately. In other words, somebody covering Kennedy would be sent over
Telephone conversation # 5243, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/28/1964, 1:31AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There were no political overtones or anything else. It's just what it appears to be. And it wound up with some memos from Ed [Edward C. Welsh], which were done in such a form that Johnson could present them to Kennedy. But that's cut and dried
  • in other military tactics, such as rocket power and supersonic speeds; Robert Kennedy's presidential aspirations in 1963; LBJ's reaction to criticism in the press; assumptions in 1963 about President Kennedy's political future; Barry Goldwater's chances
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
  • Cabot Lodge campaign; Kennedy's speech to the Houston Ministerial Alliance; JFK/LBJ campaigning in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson speaking at campaign stops; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; how dates and places get confused while campaigning; campaign fatigue
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is that he is a member of the National Security Council--that was an innovation of Harry Truman. Second, he is the chairman of the Space Council--that was an innovation of President Kennedy, who requested Congress to amend the Space Act very early during
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • although he overdid it of keeping all the Kennedy people on that he possibly could. The--I know that Bill White was one of the first to pound that home to him, Bill White of The New York Times--but he-- G: That he overdid it? R: Yes. Johnson definitely
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . R: I know. I'm pretty certain that's the night he ran into Bobby Kennedy out there. In fact, I know it was. Yes. It was rather amusing. He had a very elaborate suite at the Beverly Hilton. There is nothing very interesting in this until this night
  • languages; LBJ's relationship with Charles de Gaulle; LBJ's trip to Las Vegas; LBJ's relationship with Robert Kennedy and the Kennedy family; LBJ visiting space-related facilities and the complexity of problems within the space program; LBJ's lack
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the Kennedy people noticed was that they approved of it. They didn't get the ifs and the whereases. G: How did you learn about the invasion? R: Oh, I learned about it when it happened. G: Just through the newspapers? R: Right. Johnson didn't mention
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Symington speaking on air power, Kennedy speaking on civil rights, and somebody else speaking on labor--Humphrey maybe. I don't remember how they lined up. And here's Johnson speaking on 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing that could look like a possibility of defeating Kefauver, and that was to get behind Jack Kennedy. So Johnson got the Texas delegation behind Jack Kennedy, which could not have been done if there had not been the first vote for Gore. One
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anybody else could really bring him anything, particularly. I wasn't even sure that Gene could, but I wouldn't have sworn that anybody could. Now he started out by ruling out certain people. And there was no doubt whatsoever that Bobby Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)