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HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XII -~ 10 But in that article one of the things that really fascinated him was the telephone in the back yard down in Austin. Johnson had that house at that point
LBJ and Senate activities, 1958; hearings resumed; LBJ and the press; LBJ and the telephone; jury trial amendment; LBJ and the Hill Country; LBJ and foreign trips; LBJ's accomplishments; LBJ personal considerations, 1959-1960; Texas issues; LBJ

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

upon the President in private conversations with the press. Of course, he disliked the President intensely--he had for many years--and made no secret about it to anybody but the President. And since Bill was never overly scrupulous about the truth

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was "Uncle Dick." But I did have one or two other conversations with him. They were all sort of undercurrent hints that he thought the President had gotten much too far away from the people, that there was a difference between leading the people and between

a very close friend, warm friend out of Harry Truman, which was not hard to do at all, because Harry Truman was a very masculine man. He was exaggeratedly masculine. You know, his conversation was loaded with words that were so damn blue that even

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conversations with [Ngo Dinh] Diem, who was then President of--or whatever the title was--of South Viet Nam. In countries like Sweden and Norway and Denmark and Finland and Iceland where you had mostly socialist governments or labor governments, he got along

of the union and call in the heads of the airlines and lock them up [behind] a door for an agreement." I ran like hell to the nearest telephone. I couldn't get him; he was in a meeting. I couldn't get Harry McPherson; I couldn't get anybody. Before I finished

that. R: Well, there wasn't too much to tell really except I had some long conversations with Alan Bible in which he outlined the political realities of Nevada for me. G: What did he say? R: The largest single vote--well, the most important single

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think it was mostly a question of keeping pressure on the air force. You know, on a thing like that, what you really get is a lot of private telephone calls, and nothing else, maybe a letter occasionally. But keeping Goodfellow Air Base going was one

instinctively to goals. But when action was involved, oof! G: Do you remember any specific conversations in which he was weighing whether or not to run? R: Well, the main one that I remember was the night before he flew up to Atlantic City to accept

conversations with them up to that point had been conversations on some--on what was happening. Now they were after is, "What is Johnson like?" G: Yes. How would you define your official responsibilities during this period? R: That period? The same

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is sitting there; it inhibits conversation. You aren't getting any news out of it. You can't get any news. The news is at the stops, not while they're on the plane. Eventually he abolished it altogether, and I could not talk him out of it. He got awfully mad

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you're going to have with almost anyone that you interview on Johnson. He was not the kind of man that after that kind of an action would start speculating on why it happened. His conversation would be entirely "for the love of God, the ox

that position, but he told me [that] and he was right. G: Another memo that you have describes a conversation that you had with Arthur Goldberg. R: Yes. That was rather amusing in a way. Arthur in that. I don t know what had gotten 1 I think he was just

that's important about the vice president is the succession." He wanted--I never wrote him a memorandum on it, but in conversation I told him that I had made a little check and that this business of the vice president breaking ties was really virtually

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

used to give a great deal of difficulty although it hasn't in recent years. In the course of our conversation, he said in a joking way, "I want you to get over on my side and work for me where you belong." I thought he was kidding, and I said, "Make

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

think this is where we, Russell and I, became very close, and I think part of it was because of a conversation we had one night about the whole strategy of this MacArthur thing. Because the accordian ended way back in Moscow, that was the real trouble

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the seniority was really in the hands of the South. You had a few western senators who were senior, but they were perfectly willing to go along with LBJ anyway. My own belief is that LBJ very early, in private conversations, started taking advantage

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

out every once in a while. That was the conversation where he made some remark about, "You ought to come over and work for me," and I said, "Well, make me an offer," and a couple of days later I was working for him. My last job for the United Press

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

conversation, sometimes- when Johnson started to talk about something when there wasn't any thing to be made out of talking about it, you could be pretty damn sure it really was in his mind. that question of the water. And time after time he'd come back

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

disconsolate, and he turned and he saw Truman standing there with his head down, his hands on the desk and he said Truman suddenly looked up and said, "General, you're going to get your planes." Aside from that, it was just sort of a nervous conversation all

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