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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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DATE RANGE
- June 1987x
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- The 1968 proposed tax surcharge to address rising costs of the Vietnam War and curb inflation; support from the business community for the tax surcharge; Civil Rights Act of 1968; Everett Dirksen's role in passing the cloture vote; the Housing…
- Career history as a journalist; work on the Texas Judicial Council; the Texas state legislature in 1933; how the problems of education, poverty, prisons, social security, and the like have spanned decades; a government pension system; differences of…
- Austin City Council's concerns with civil rights issues in 1950s and 1960s; human rights commission not established until 1967; gradual desegregation of Austin; other Austin issues and Long's activities; failed campaign for state Senate,…