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  • at Texas City. bill. Senator Johnson was strong for that I had handled it in the Judiciary Committee. That bill was passed and we thought all the Texas Congressmen were for the bill, but over in the House Congressman Jack Brooks just tore the bill all
  • histories: More onon LBJLBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hayes -- II -- 11 Brooks, who headed the program, was not inclined to work things out. It was sort of one battle
  • was the guy that was the Braniff presi- dent; his name was Smith, I think. men or labor people. Anyway, liberal southern business- The only people from Congress that were there-- there were no government officials in the group, but Johnson and Brooks Hays
  • sort of thought of him as that--Johnson sort of towering over all of these a bunch of Texas congressmen behind him: people~ There were Homer Thornberry, Jack Brooks-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT