Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz

Title:

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz

Number of Pages:

26

Description:

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

Contributor:

Mahon, George Herman, 1900-1985

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with George Mahon

Subject:

Assassinations; Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details