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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with NASA they'd be releasing stuff to the other services. The only commentary I would add is this. One of the things that happened to us was the same thing that happened to the Germans in World War II. That is, they started out with such an overwhelming
  • Ed Welsh and the adoption of a plan to land a man on the moon; early competition between military branches and their fear of releasing secrets to NASA; how U.S. dominance in air power during World War II led other countries to advance technology
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into a considerable amount of trouble. G: Can you recall a specific example? R: Well, the worst part was the airline strike of 1965. Sixty-six. That was a classic. That was a classic. In 1964, I guess, when the railroad strike came on, and I had advised him
  • 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 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 upon Morse to help him out with the airline strike in 1966, and Morse did an excellent job for him. You know, Johnson really put
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Wham! Right on the line. That's how I became press secretary. G: Okay. Let's go back to some of these initial issues. In mid-December of 1963, you had the airline machinists' strike. R: Oh God, yes. G: Were you involved in the negotiations
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about Vietnam; intervention in the Dominican Republic; civil rights; immigration reforms; airline machinists’ strike; Reedy’s departure from post of press secretary; LBJ’s staff.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the faces of these Indian farmers, totally illiterate, living in this weird back­ water of the world where they were conducting their affairs in about the same way that their remote ancestors had conducted their affairs--their faces lit up; they actually
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , on the airline G: strike~ Did he get advice from Brown and Root and other contractor friends on the 1abor--? R: Some, some. But I don't think it had too much to do with his think­ ing, because Brown and Root didn't particularly care. ran a very peculiar