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Telephone conversation # 4253, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/16/1964, 7:03PM (Item)

LBJ IS MEETING WITH DREW PEARSON AT TIME OF CALL
LBJ'S DEPARTURE FOR LBJ RANCH; REEDY ADVISES LBJ TO GIVE DREW PEARSON POSITIVE FIGURES ON GNP, EMPLOYMENT; REEDY SAYS BARRY GOLDWATER IN EFFECT IS SET TO RUN AGAINST PROSPERITY

Telephone conversation # 3040, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 4/16/1964, 5:36PM (Item)

Telephone conversation # 2713, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 3/30/1964, 8:00PM (Item)

Telephone conversation # 5214, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/25/1964, 10:00PM (Item)

REEDY TELLS LBJ THAT RALPH MCGILL REPORTS DREW PEARSON WILL RUN COLUMN SAYING LBJ ORDERED FIRING OF LEONARD REINSCH AS TV MANAGER OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; LBJ DENIES STORY, SAYS HE THINKS REINSCH HAS DONE GOOD JOB; DISCUSSION OF RIOTING

Telephone conversation # 1593, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 1/27/1964, 8:55PM (Item)

JENKINS' PROPOSED PRESS STATEMENT ON BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION, DON REYNOLDS' CHARGES; ADVERSE PRESS REACTION TO LBJ'S STATEMENT; HANDLING STORIES ON INVESTIGATION; WASHINGTON POST; DREW PEARSON; BILL WHITE, ROWLAND EVANS; SARAH MCCLENDON; HELEN

: Johnson did support the Eisenhower position. R: Oh, yes. G: One other question I wanted to ask on the open curtain proposal was Oh, sure. Drew Pearson seems to have been favorably inclined toward it. R: Yes. Drew Pearson liked it. 13 LBJ

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

through pork-barreling or projects that they were interested in? R: Not necessarily. nesses. Johnson was a genius at determining people s weak 1 You know, Drew Pearson came out with a terrific anti Johnson feud. My God, Johnson personally put

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

, once you got a rapprochement between Johnson and Yarborough, then all sorts of consequences flowed from it. the Drew Pearson columns. For one thing, you had Now, Pearson was bitterly anti-Johnson. I don't know why, I think it had something to do

specific interest, but I'd be terribly sur prised if he wouldn't. G: He would use any hoe to kill a snake. Now, early in January of that year, 1955, Drew Pearson wrote a column criticizing LBJ's one-man rule. Some of the specifics that he referred
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

Pearson columns must have been effective. R: Oh, they were. G: Here's another memo about Paul Healy and a story that he did on LBJ They were godsends to me at some times. going to San Antonio- R: Who was [Donald] Farrell? G: He was the astronaut

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

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