Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette

Congressional relations with the Department of the Treasury during the Kennedy administration; Charls Walker; Barr's duties under the Department of the Treasury; Larry O'Brien; conflict between the Department of the Treasury and other departments; Sam Rayburn and Judge Howard Smith; Barr's relationship with Sam Rayburn; bond interest rates; time Barr spent with the Senate and House; Harry Byrd, Sr.; Robert Kerr; funding the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT); backdoor spending; Social Security benefits and tax increase; sugar quotas; tax revision; contrast between Eisenhower's and JFK's tax bills (capital equipment, investment tax credit and the entertainment allowance); bank opposition to withholding provisions; 1962 tax shelter legislation; dividend and interest withholding legislation; the investment tax credit; characterization of the House and Senate in relation to passing taxation legislation.