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Well, I know about your congressional career.
B:
You do?
G:
You've covered that in your first interview.
B:
Did I? All right, okay. I did tell you that I had gone back to work in Indianapolis, and
Kennedy--by that time Larry [O'Brien] had
- 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
- were picking up, but you
couldn't find the expenditures, not through the government expenditures. What was
happening was old [Robert] McNamara was putting out--he'd go to a factory and give
them a letter of intent saying, "I want so many tanks, I want
- Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in Vietnam
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Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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in 1959.
We began to make a serious attack on it in 1961.
We had a
little gold crisis as Jack Kennedy
- Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
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On any particular issue?
B:
Yes.
I was defeated--
It's a tough thing to say, but the truth of the matter is that it
was race.
I ran twenty to thirty thousand votes ahead of President Kennedy
in the election, but that still was not enough.
fifty
- Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
- philosophy or another?
B:
He would probably represent the Carter political philosophy today. Get rid of regulation.
He thought regulation was terrible. He wanted to get rid of as much of it as he could.
G:
Who had appointed him?
B:
Kennedy. I've never