Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette

LBJ’s Capitol office; P-38; Castro assumed power in Cuba; resignation of Theodore Green as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; annual battle over Rule 22; LBJ’s motion to change rules to two-thirds of those present and voting than a constitutional two-thirds; change in the Republican Party; Knowland and Dirksen; nepotism in Congressional offices; Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ’s disinterest in the Senate; civil rights bill and related activities; committee assignments; William Proxmire; party policy; LBJ’s strategy on taking a position; Eisenhower’s vetoing of legislation; source of LBJ for President movement; LBJ’s reaction to the movement; LBJ mends fences with labor; Texas Legislature legislation for allowing candidate to be on the ballot for two offices; reasons for failure of LBJ’s 1960 efforts for presidential nomination; LBJ and Ronnie Dugger; changes in duties of Policy Committee staff; vote to admit Hawaii as a state; East-West Institute in Hawaii; Clare Booth Luce-Wayne Morse incident; Lewis Strauss nomination as Secretary of Commerce; James Eastland and appointments; Congressional strengths; LBJ and Herman Talmadge; the loyalty oath; Paul Butler; Joe Rauh.