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  • Contributor > Reedy, George E. (George Edward), 1917-1999 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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)