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: What do you mean by that? R: Well, the Irish usually classify it as pig in the parlor, that's down at the bottom. Then you get the lace curtain, that's when Pat gets a job and Momma kicks the pig out of the house and puts it in a sty in the back
; LBJ announces; the Addison's Disease story; national convention in Los Angeles’ LBJ accepts the VP nomination; Rayburn and Nixon; Connally and LBJ; RFK; Acapulco trip; LBJ’s contribution to the ticket; the Jewish vote; the Adolphus Hotel incident

directions. Also, the Republicans really had gotten themselves into a bad deal that year. You know, to have Knowland resign his Senate seat to run for governor against Pat Brown--you didn't run against Pat Brown. If you run against Pat Brown, it just

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

remember correctly. temperament for it. bruising. He didn't have the I'm afraid that he would have taken a very bad The Judiciary Committee is a tough committee. It had been headed by Pat Mc Carran for many years, and boy, oh boy, Pat Mc Carran had

Telephone conversation # 5857, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 10/10/1964, 12:25PM (Item)

PRESS GUIDANCE FOR FINAL WEEKS OF CAMPAIGN; HECKLING OF LADY BIRD JOHNSON ON WHISTLESTOP TRIP; LBJ'S NEW ORLEANS SPEECH; DAVID RABINOVITZ WISCONSIN JUDGESHIP; HARRIS POLL; NIXON'S STATEMENTS; WHISTLESTOP PRESS COVERAGE; LUCI JOHNSON'S CAMPAIGN

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

; Reedy’s relationship with LBJ after the Presidency; LBJ’s use of the telephone; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ’s positive attitude; Walter Jenkins; President Nixon; LBJ’s and Sam Rayburn’s view of Nixon; LBJ’s separation from reality; LBJ’s childhood; Sam

: Was there a way during these stops, these speeches, to have monitored what the Nixon-Lodge campaign was saying and answer their charges or their accusations? R: They were being followed closely in Washington, and we'd get on the phone every time we had a chance
between the convention and election due to a lack of political stability; the JFK/LBJ 1960 campaign kickoff parade in Boston; LBJ drinking too much in El Paso at the beginning of the campaign; the nature of LBJ's campaign speeches; the Richard Nixon-Henry

this, Nixon took that trip to South America. R: Yes. The one to Venezuela? 28 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

awfully fast, much too fast I thought, but he could make it. And very blunt-speaking, I think that's what attracted Johnson. But it also attracted Nixon, and as I said, the Pakistanis specialized in this. One of my memories is on the around-the-world trip

that, sometimes only four or five paragraphs, in which we would--well, the only one I can remember right now is one in which Mr. Nixon had made some rather some silly statement. I wrote out that, "Mr. Nixon has been caught with his planks down," which obviously

because he was representing the United States. It was because somebody hated Lyndon Johnson. He was always citing what happened to [Richard] Nixon down in Caracas, you know, when the eggs were thrown and all that kind of thing. Of course, Nixon wasn't

proposition. In fact, if we'd have tried it a year earlier it would have worked. Unfortunately, we tried it during a year where it couldn't possibly work, but we didn't know that at the time. And Charlie Murphy, of course, got busy in the transition to Nixon

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

--that the Democratic nominee had to be Hubert Humphrey, and the Republican nominee had to be Dick Nixon, simply because they were the only two men that didn't split the party irre trievably. Humphrey could hold together both the southern moderates and the northern

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

: Nixon issued an opinion that the Senate ought to be able to change its rules. R: That is one of the most dishonest opinions that has ever come down the pike. What he ruled was the Senate can change its rules by a majority vote. Well, of course

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

and the only committee member that had enough intelligence to direct that kind of an investigation was Dick Nixon. That was a very poor committee, very poor committee, and the staff was even worse. found Alger Hiss. They could never have In fact, I don't

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