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Telephone conversation # 4867, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/10/1964, 5:05PM (Item)
  • "RE: TALK TO HOME, CYPRUS"
  • LBJ ADVISES REEDY ABOUT PRESS HANDLING OF HIS CALL TO UK'S PRIME MINISTER ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME ON CYPRUS SITUATION
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • take two steps forward, is a little bit difficult to go home and expJain. You know, really the half-a-loaf theory is always discussed with pejorative words and in derogatory tones. When 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the homely, familiar words. I can negotiate a treaty putting an end to a war in German, but when it comes to ordering a hamburger, hold the fries, I'd be totally lost. And fortunately, the Secret Service had one of the Texas Germans working in San Antonio
Folder, "Dominican Republic," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • within the laws, employees, all com• tle'.home to maintain and to cultivate With respect you in every SECilE'F in the that we have achieved in his country, at all times relations business Bosch will be encouraging enterprises office may
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not at. So I don't know. G: Anything else on that trip? R: No. G: John Connally went along on that trip, I see. R: German? G: I think so. R: No. No. No, sir. That I would certainly remember. Oh, he may have been there for some reason. That's
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: 1bis is the second session with George Reedy. Sir, last time we carried this through the election of 1960, which brings us now up to the vice presidential years when you were still on Mr. Johnson's
Telephone conversation # 2874, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 4/7/1964, 11:50AM (Item)
  • UPCOMING PRESS BRIEFING; RICHARD GOODWIN'S WH ROLE; DOUGLAS MACARTHUR FUNERAL; WILLIAM DOHERTY RESIGNATION; HARRY RANSOM, JACK VAUGHN APPOINTMENT; PRESS STORIES ON LBJ'S SPEEDING; LBJ'S SCHEDULE, UPCOMING TRIPS; ORGANIZATION OF WH PRESS OFFICE
Telephone conversation # 3536, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/28/1964, 11:03AM (Item)
  • REEDY ASKS ABOUT ITEMS FOR PRESS BRIEFING: LBJ AND DOUGLAS DILLON'S STATEMENTS AT CEREMONY THIS MORNING; LBJ'S MEETINGS THIS MORNING WITH JOHN MCCONE ON WORLD SITUATION, WITH WILLARD WIRTZ ON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Telephone conversation # 3463, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/15/1964, 8:40PM (Item)
  • TIMING OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF RELEASE OF US PILOTS IN KOREA; SCHEDULING PRESS CONFERENCES FOR MAXIMUM PUBLIC AUDIENCE; NEWSPAPER, TV COVERAGE; COMMENTS BY DOUGLAS KIKER, CHARLES ROBERTS ON WH EXPOSURE TO PRESS; LIZ CARPENTER
Telephone conversation # 6360, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 11/16/1964, 11:20AM (Item)
  • DOUGLAS KIKER'S STORY ON ST. LOUIS TRIP; CRITICISM OF WH PRESS OFFICE BY CABINET, OTHERS; NEED TO IMPROVE WH PRESS OFFICE; LACK OF EFFECTIVE PUBLICITY ABOUT WH; PRESS LEAKS; STORIES THAT LBJ'S ELECTION WAS RESULT OF FEAR OF GOLDWATER; EDWIN WEISL
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that if the bill gets passed you had better not go home, because your constituents are going to be waiting for you with noosed ropes. And number two, that the second other members of the Senate start getting reasonable and are willing to meet some of your
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think Johnson understood that until it was explained to him, but I think that he instinctively grasped the explanation as soon as it was offered. G: Those who came down to the Ranch were General [Joe W.] Kelly, Major Swindell and Senator Paul Douglas
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1975 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE REEDY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: A friend's home in Washington, D. C. G: (Tape 1 of 2) Let's talk about, first of all, your role as policy advisor to Lyndon Johnson while he was Senator. R: Yes. G
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as easy for him to be a conservative as it was for him to be a liberal. G: Vance Trimble did a story on the nepotism in congressional offices, in Senate offices, and one of the items that they homed in on was the 11 - - - - - - - - - - - - -----LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • What had happened just before that? conference itself didn't say very much. I remember--the press It didn't produce any head­ 1 ines because no headlines could be produced. But for some reason he was more at home with the press at that particular
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that moved Dick Russell very early. doesn't matter. When was the year of the Suez Crisis? It [1956] Russell and I became very close very early, because LBJ put me on the corrmittee investigating the [General Douglas] MacArthur return. was really the whole
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relationship by then. Let's go on to the [General Douglas] MacArthur hearings. You say that you had only been on the staff a few days when-­ R: A few weeks. I've forgotten precisely how long now, but the selection of Russell to chair the inquiry
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. And every time he saw a newspaperman, the newspaperman was looking for a story. I don't think he had any realization that people live normal lives in which what they do is not necessarily something they take home with them. G: He did socialize
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • can recall one night, when I was home and in bed and I always corrected the Record for Johnson. that evening. Johnson told me to go home early The Senate was still meeting, but he wasn't going to take the floor anymore, and there was just a long
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like Paul Douglas from the University of Chicago--he was then a senator--he should have known 24 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • such a cold shoulder to vice presidents. G: Well, don't both the president and the vice president give some states an advantage, namely their home states? R: Not in the Senate. G: But in terms of governing the country as a whole? R: That's not what
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • though. G: And he also had a press conference at the air base in Massachusetts and apparently another one the next morning-- R: Yes. G: --at the Kennedy home. Anything on a decision at that point on what role in the campaign LBJ would play or what
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to check Douglas MacArthur into the Hotel Statler, and within two or three weeks I was the whole staff for the committee investigation of MacArthur. He went to [Richard] Russell--you remember the Senate put Foreign Relations and the Armed Services Committee
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • circumstances it was prudent to shore up the home base; even if he weren't going to run for the presidency, it was prudent to step in at that point and be sure that he had the necessary organization to take over when 1960 rolled around, any way you looked
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went home that night and I don't think I slept all night long. The next day, he has a party, gets in the airplane, flies to Atlantic City and accepts the nomination. We must have been walking up and down that lawn for--I say two hours, more likely
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the devil was it? I don't know, but it was when the Senate was out of session and to get something around to the press, about the only way you could do it was take it around to their homes. So Willie Day [Taylor] literally delivered speeches, left
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • irritated him. The phone ringing irritated him. (Laughter) The phone not ringing irritated him. That was one of the days that reminds me of that old story about the man that says, "I'm going home now and if dinner is not on the table, I'm going to bawl my
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)