Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970 Page: 2
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Schwartz:two-year budget came about? Was there some politics involved
here, let's say between Preston Smith and Ben Barnes, for
example?
Well, it started between Governor Connally and Preston Smith
when Preston Smith was lieutenant governor. The last
Connally budget was a one-year budget. Preston Smith was
opposed to this. And this session I was a member of the
finance sub-committee which wrote the appropriation bill and
a member of the conference committee which ironed out the
differences (between the two Houses) and wrote the bill. And
we just simply recognized what was the truth. And that was
that a one-year bill makes sense and a two-year bill is a
guess. You can appropriate intelligently for one year. You
can only guess about two years by applying some formulas that
are not always true. My judgment, because I was on that
side, is that the intelligent view of appropriations is that
you do what you can do intelligently which is a one-year
proposal.
Did you see any political motivations involved in this one-
year and two-year budget controversy? That is, between Ben
Barnes and Preston Smith?
Well, I think that Preston was continuing to kick that old
dog around that he kicked around with John Connally. It was
a Connally-Smith issue, and Preston wouldn't let it die. It
may have been a Barnes-Smith issue because Barnes was related
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-. Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970, book, February 8, 1971; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223602/m1/3/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.