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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

happened in 1959 will not be comprehensible. The Republicans associated the whole thing with Walter Reuther. He was the black beast as far as the thinking of the House and Senate Labor Committees went in 1947-48. When they passed the closed shop
History and interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act; Walter Reuther; the closed shop and the union shop; the building trades; picketing; the various unions; LBJ and labor legislation; Brown and Root and the union; interest of George Meany and David

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

on this big campaign against the closed shop, and most of that was directed against Walter Reuther. They knew so little that what they finally did was to leave the union shop in, which is what Reuther 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

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

LBJ by that point had established, largely through me, very good liaison with a number of national labor leaders. George Meany. He was in very good shape with Walter Reuther was a personal friend of mine. And the view of LBJ held by national labor

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

of the communist power had been broken--and it was broken; after 1948 that was the end. Walter Reuther got the United Automobile Workers back. The AFL-CIO set up the IUE, the International Union of Electrical Workers, which over a long period of time finally

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

that. was a very dramatic one. That Paul Popple was the man who handled most of those investigations. G: LBJ seems to have, at that point, been endeavoring to increase his staff, to get more good staff people. I guess to run for Congress. [Walter] Jenkins had

made by the Senate Republican Policy Corrrnittee? Well, he mentioned Reuther, which was ridiculous because Walter and I were very close friends. And obviously what he was asking for was rather foo 1 ish. You have to understand something

where there was quite likely to be a victory. G: This was the occasion on which Senator [Walter] George insisted that an amendment be added that would allow the states to retain the adver tising rights along the highways rather than yield

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