How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act of 1957 and Mahon’s response to it; 1952 presidential election and Democratic Party’s loss of Texas; LBJ’s loss of presidential nomination in 1960; LBJ as vice-president; Ralph Yarborough; JFK’s assassination
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Citation
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 30, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-mahong-19720816-1-78-50