Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois

Title:

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois

Number of Pages:

47

Description:

Career history as a journalist; work on the Texas Judicial Council; the Texas state legislature in 1933; how the problems of education, poverty, prisons, social security, and the like have spanned decades; a government pension system; differences of opinion between Franklin Roosevelt and John Nance Garner; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Social Security and Old Age Assistance; James and Miriam Ferguson; pari-mutuel betting on horse races; Texas oil; the Railroad Commission's authority to regulate oil production; James Allred's death and campaign style; W. Lee O'Daniel's radio show; how O'Daniel got into politics and became governor of Texas; funding an old-age pension under O'Daniel; the state of Texas' deficit in the 1930s and 1940s; a pay-as-you-go amendment to the Texas Constitution regarding the appropriation of state funds; O'Daniel's supporters; Morehead's early impressions of LBJ; Franklin Roosevelt's visits to Texas; the press' respect for privacy in the early 1900s; Roosevelt's declining health; Morehead's relationship with Elliott Roosevelt; Coke Stevenson's relationship with the press; O'Daniel's relationship with the press and his political experience; controversies surrounding LBJ's 1941 and 1948 elections; the Dallas Morning News' lack of support for LBJ; Texas Democrats in the 1900s and late 1800s; the rise of Republicans in 1960; Governor Beauford Jester and his campaign against Homer Rainey; Jester overhauling the Texas prison system and state hospitals; the Texas education system and the Gilmer-Aikin program; Allan Shivers' governorship; involving the business lobby in decision-making regarding taxes; the Big Inch Pipeline and the Petroleum Administration for War; the cost of oil versus natural gas

Contributor:

Morehead, Richard

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 Richard Morehead

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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