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Travis County Clerk Records: Commissioners Court Minutes 11

Description: Travis County Commissioners Court minutes from January 1968 to October 1968, documenting proceedings of county administrative court. Business transacted includes classification and expenditure of county funds, approval of claims, levy of taxes, care of paupers, construction and maintenance of public buildings and roads, management of other county works, calling of bids and letting of contracts, designation of election precincts, appointments of election judges, calling of elections, and approva… more
Date: 1968-01/1968-10
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Partner: Travis County Clerk’s Office

Oral History Interview with George Christian, August 8, 1968

Description: Interview with George Christian, White House Press Secretary of the Lyndon Johnson administration from Austin, Texas. Christian discusses the organization of the president's staff and their duties, Johnson's decision-making process and habits as president, his own role as press secretary and the challenges of it, the logistics of communication at the White House, differences between state and federal politics, public perception of presidents and their credibility, the coming end of Johnson's te… more
Date: August 8, 1968
Creator: Gantt, Fred & Christian, George
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967

Description: Interview with J. Fagg Foster, from Blue Ridge, Texas. The interview includes Foster's involvement in the Rainey controversy while he was a graduate assistant at the University of Texas, 1944-45.
Date: April 16, 1968
Creator: Cochran, Kendall & Foster, J. Fagg
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ghent Sanderford, 1967

Description: Interview with Ghent Sanderford, attorney. The interview includes Sanderford's experiences as private secretary to Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, 1925-27 and 1933-35, his relationship with James E. Ferguson, as well as comments about Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, James Allred, W. Lee O'Daniel, and Coke Stevenson. The interview also includes his opinions on the Johnson-Stevenson senatorial race of 1948 and the impeachment of James Ferguson.
Date: May 4, 1968
Creator: Odom, E. Dale & Sanderford, Ghent
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interviews with Mrs. Dan Moody, 1968

Description: Interview with Mrs. Dan Moody, wife of former Texas Governor Dan Moody. The interview includes reminiscences of her husband's political career, the Al Smith campaign of 1928, the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948, and excerpts from her Mansion Diary.
Date: August 16, 1968
Creator: Gantt, Fred & Moody, Daniel
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Claud H. Gilmer, April 6, 1968

Description: Interview with Representative Claud H. Gilmer, a Texas state legislator from Rocksprings, Texas. Gilmer discusses his entry into politics, his first campaign for election, his experiences as a freshman in congress, the "Immortal Fifty-six," his position on the Omnibus Tax Bill, his relationship with Price Daniel, his views on Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, bills he sponsored, his impression of Daniel as House Speaker, appointing house committee members, his thoughts on the House Speaker as an office… more
Date: April 6, 1968
Creator: Gantt, Fred & Gilmer, Claud H.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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