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Telephone conversation # 2716, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 3/30/1964, 9:35PM (Item)

REEDY IS IN AUSTIN; LADY BIRD JOHNSON SPEAKS IN BACKGROUND, ANSWERING LBJ'S QUESTIONS; FORMERLY CLOSED IN PART - A
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LBJ REPORTS ON SITUATION IN BRAZIL AND POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON TRAVEL PLANS; ARRANGEMENTS FOR PLANE FOR USE BY PRESS; LBJ ASKS LADY BIRD JOHNSON ABOUT HER SCHEDULE TOMORROW; SHE ASKS LBJ TO HAVE REEDY ADVISE PRESS WHO ARE ACCOMPANYING HER TO HAVE BAGS

Telephone conversation # 3551, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/30/1964, 4:37PM (Item)

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LBJ GIVES REEDY ITEMS FOR PRESS BRIEFING: LBJ, LADY BIRD JOHNSON VOTING ABSENTEE TODAY, ATTENDING CHURCH TOMORROW; DISCUSSION OF PRESS RELEASE OF LBJ'S SPEECH TONIGHT, PROBLEMS CREATED BY TOO MUCH PRESS COVERAGE AT CHURCH SERVICES

Telephone conversation # 3451, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/13/1964, 7:35PM (Item)

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REEDY REPORTS VARIOUS CONVERSATIONS ON BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; PRESS STORY ON ALABAMA PROPERTY OWNED BY LADY BIRD JOHNSON; GEORGE WALLACE AS CANDIDATE

Telephone conversation # 3464, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/15/1964, 8:40PM (Item)

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LIZ CARPENTER; PRESS COVERAGE OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN'S VISIT TO ALABAMA PROPERTY OWNED BY LADY BIRD JOHNSON; REEDY COMMENTS ON GENERAL QUALITY OF TV NEWS PROGRAMS

Telephone conversation # 3373, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/11/1964, 12:05PM (Item)

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REEDY ASKS LBJ FOR INFORMATION FOR NOON PRESS BRIEFING; LBJ'S SCHEDULE; ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF CORWIN EDWARDS AS CONSULTANT TO PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER INTERESTS; LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S DEPARTURE ON TRIP TO EMORY UNIVERSITY

Telephone conversation # 5857, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 10/10/1964, 12:25PM (Item)

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PRESS GUIDANCE FOR FINAL WEEKS OF CAMPAIGN; HECKLING OF LADY BIRD JOHNSON ON WHISTLESTOP TRIP; LBJ'S NEW ORLEANS SPEECH; DAVID RABINOVITZ WISCONSIN JUDGESHIP; HARRIS POLL; NIXON'S STATEMENTS; WHISTLESTOP PRESS COVERAGE; LUCI JOHNSON'S CAMPAIGN

Telephone conversation # 6366, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 11/16/1964, 4:20PM (Item)

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PRESS QUESTIONS ON REPORT THAT US AIRPLANE DOWNED OVER CHINA; PROCEDURES FOR NOTIFYING REEDY OF SUCH INCIDENTS; PHOTOGRAPH OF LBJ AND LADY BIRD JOHNSON TO BE TAKEN TOMORROW; RUMOR THAT FULL-SCALE REVIEW ON VIETNAM IS UNDERWAY

Telephone conversation # 8139, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/15/1965, 5:31PM (Item)

TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING; REEDY DOES NOT SPEAK IN THIS RECORDING; INAUDIBLE OFFICE CONVERSATION AT END OF RECORDING; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL
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Telephone conversation # 8140, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/15/1965, 5:31PM (Item)

TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING; INAUDIBLE OFFICE CONVERSATION WHILE LBJ IS ON HOLD; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER
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Telephone conversation # 3070, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 4/20/1964, 7:29PM (Item)

LBJ INTERRUPTS REEDY, PAUSES TO WATCH LADY BIRD JOHNSON ON TV, THEN TALKS TO WALTER JENKINS WHO IS WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL

of the atomic bomb weren't nearly as well kept. I doubt if even Lady Bird could have given you a good guess. I had an idea that he might go for somebody like Gene McCarthy, seeing that the Catholic vote had become a very important factor and that I don't think

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

Reedy -:.. X . :. .:. 28 R: About the same way he always was about KTBC~ There would be periods of tremendous activity which would last for maybe a couple of days or a week, and then he'd get tired of it and Lady Bird would step in and patch up

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

something, so Lady Bird came down and was quite gracious. She really rescued the occasion. It wasn't much, but this honor guard had pulled out there; you can't just leave them alone. Then, let's see now. G: Now, there were several days of briefings

shindig in Omaha, the main thing I remember about that was a marvelous speech that Lady Bird made, talking about she'd always wanted to see the state because down in Texas they produced all this beef, which was all range-fed. It was sent up to Nebraska
Cabot Lodge campaign; Kennedy's speech to the Houston Ministerial Alliance; JFK/LBJ campaigning in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson speaking at campaign stops; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; how dates and places get confused while campaigning; campaign fatigue

the graves, shaking hands. Walking over the graves. And Lynda Bird had those Lynda Bird pencils. Did you ever see them? They were just ordinary pencils except they had stuck in the top 25 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

, and as I recall, I think that he did succeed in getting--oh maybe some twenty or thereabouts placed in reasonably good jobs. Of course, Liz [Carpenter] went on as Lady Bird's press secretary, and Bess [Abell] became Lady Bird's secretary. What did he give

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

to talk about it. He wanted to get it out of his mind if he possibly could. Later, when Rayburn actually died, I remember we were in an automobile and I don't recall the circumstances, but there was Lady Bird Johnson and myself in the front seat and I

of that nature, we would not even turn that letter over to the agency as we would with any other letter. G: Why were those two singled out? R: Well, Federal Conmunications Commission for the obvious reason of Lady Bird's holdings in radio, KTBC. The tax

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

business. The only other difficulty there is that many of these--Dave Dubinsky and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union were also affected by these provisions even though the closed shop was not quite that important to them. But the big problem

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

: This is the morning of the March 31 speech? R: Yes, when he pulled out. She says that that morning, Lynda Bird came in to breakfast and she had a letter that had been written to her by some woman talking about her husband who was a marine, and how they'd gotten

to New York? Who else was on the trip? Do your notes show? G: Yes. You, [H. V.] Dick Bird, Mary Margaret [Wiley Valenti], Tazewell Shepard were there in Kansas City, and then you went to New York, and apparently Weisl was the host there, Ed Weisl. R

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