Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-Second Texas Legislature | Oral History

Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-Second Texas Legislature

OH 0150

Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. House speakership races; selection of committee chairmen; House rules changes; Governor Preston Smith’s one-year budget; insurance legislation; comments about Governor Smith.

OH 0087

Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation.

OH 0280

Attorney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from El Paso, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Texas Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith.