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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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