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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was a long, drawn-out very tricky battle, very tricky. G: Now, the Kennedy bill when it was first introduced was really sort of a mild labor-management reporting and anticorruption type bill. It 11 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speculation, actually. G: Regarding Robert Kennedy and his presidential aspirations. R: Right. I don't think anybody quite said it, but there had been a number of columnists who had left a very clear inference that Kennedy was engaged in trying to dump
  • in other military tactics, such as rocket power and supersonic speeds; Robert Kennedy's presidential aspirations in 1963; LBJ's reaction to criticism in the press; assumptions in 1963 about President Kennedy's political future; Barry Goldwater's chances
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a rather warm, simpatico man, unlike his brother. He did not have that aloofness and that hard-shell aspect to him that John Foster did. So he and Allen got along pretty well. G: Okay. The next day you flew with him to Hyannis Port to meet with Kennedy
  • 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
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there was genuine liking between the two men. B: There has been a good deal of speculation, and probably will continue to be a good deal of speculation, about the relationship of the Kennedy staff to Mr. Johnson--Robert Kennedy and President Kennedy's various
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • crises that kept jumping up. I don't think he particularly relished those foreign policy crises although in my view he handled most of them rather well. G: He sent Robert Kennedy to help resolve the hostilities between Malaysia and Indonesia. Do you
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side of the street was totally wrecked, the other side wasn't touched. G: Anything on the Kennedy assassination? R: You mean Bobby? G: Yes. R: The main thing I remember, I'd gone to bed early that night and Sam Houston called me. He was watching
  • Reedy’s return to LBJ’s staff; preparations for 1968 campaign; March 31, 1968 speech, Washington riots; assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy; Reedy’s book on the presidency; maritime strike; Sam Houston; last year of LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . R: I know. I'm pretty certain that's the night he ran into Bobby Kennedy out there. In fact, I know it was. Yes. It was rather amusing. He had a very elaborate suite at the Beverly Hilton. There is nothing very interesting in this until this night
  • languages; LBJ's relationship with Charles de Gaulle; LBJ's trip to Las Vegas; LBJ's relationship with Robert Kennedy and the Kennedy family; LBJ visiting space-related facilities and the complexity of problems within the space program; LBJ's lack
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anybody else could really bring him anything, particularly. I wasn't even sure that Gene could, but I wouldn't have sworn that anybody could. Now he started out by ruling out certain people. And there was no doubt whatsoever that Bobby Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) --anything that Bobby Kennedy did. The antagonism between those two men was one of the strongest I've ever seen in my life. It was just like two dogs coming into a room, when all of a sudden you hear a low growl. LBJ was determined that Bobby
  • between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; Robert McNamara's efforts to use common weapons across all arms of the military; Chuck Stone's interest in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; LBJ's relationship with Bobby Baker; Reedy and LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; [Walter] George [D. Ga.]; [Robert A.] Taft [R. Ohio]; [John O.] Pastore [D. R.I.); [Hubert H.] Humphrey [D. Minn.]; [Burnet R.] Maybank [D. S.C.]; [John C.] Stennis [D. Miss.); [H. Styles] Bridges [R. N.H.]; [Eugene D.] Millikin [R. Colo.]. There would
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 29, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Sheraton-Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start first with the Kennedy-Ives bill. We discussed that some last time but not in any
  • 1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of your interviews you just mentioned in passing Robert Hill, who was Ambassador to Mexico, and I wonder if we could explore a little bit the relations with him. I had a feeling that they went a little deeper. R: Of course they would. You see, Bob had
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing that could look like a possibility of defeating Kefauver, and that was to get behind Jack Kennedy. So Johnson got the Texas delegation behind Jack Kennedy, which could not have been done if there had not been the first vote for Gore. One
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XII -- 4 too bad~ These were the hearings, by the way, out of which grew Kennedy's missile gap charge during the 1960 campaign, which was not true. G: There was no missile gap. Did Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Republican terms. But the Republican Party in the state was controlled by Colonel [Robert R.] McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. By God, you weren't going to get the statewide Republican nomination unless you were kosher with Colonel McCormick, and Dirksen
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was very ineffective at first. The major person in the White House that did have some knowledge of the Hill was Jack Martin, I. Jack Martin, who had been Senator [Robert] Taft's assistant. I have a feeling that other members of the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . R: Look at it. Can you think of any really outstanding New York senators? Probably the best known was • • • I don't want to take you back as far as Roscoe Conkling. In this century about the only senator who was really well known is Robert F
  • McCarthy; Civil Rights Bill of 1957; differences between Richard Russell and Strom Thurmond; Housing Act of 1955 and the Capehart Amendment; LBJ’s lack of prejudices; LBJ’s mood swings; Bobby Baker; LBJ and the Kennedys; LBJ’s relationship with the press
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • turn the task of handling the assignments over to the Steering Committee, because if he had, he would never have been able to get freshmen senators such as Kennedy and the others some of the positions that he got for them on major committees. tion
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was maneuvered precisely, I do not know. G: Did you ever hear that Senator [Robert] Kerr also wanted the whip position? K: No. No, and I would rather doubt it. I think that if Kerr had wanted something, it \vould have been the leadership. he would have
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XVIII -- 5 R: It shifted too much to be labeled that way, and by that time the press had reached a stage where it was changing assignments deliberately. In other words, somebody covering Kennedy would be sent over
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the Kennedy people noticed was that they approved of it. They didn't get the ifs and the whereases. G: How did you learn about the invasion? R: Oh, I learned about it when it happened. G: Just through the newspapers? R: Right. Johnson didn't mention
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was going to come from? R: Oh, rather obviously from--Gene McCarthy had already challenged him; very obviously Bobby Kennedy was sitting in the wings and waiting nervously to make an entrance. B: And you thought they or some combination thereof might
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that developed in 1960 is that Johnson had a much stronger Jewish following than Kennedy did, much stronger. This is one of the major reasons for sending Johnson up to New York to make that famous-well, I don't know if famous--but that speech at the Liberal
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the White House the same way a woman will bring a fern plant into her home. It was sort of window dressing. And I think that he saw Schlesinger that way in the Kennedy White House. I don't think he thought that any of these people really had anything to do