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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Contributor > Barr, Joseph Walker, 1918-1996 (remove)
  • Date > 1969-08-25 (remove)

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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