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Clayton, Billy. Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1979 August 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1979 August 27.

Interview with Bill Clayton, a farmer-rancher-businessman and former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1982), concerning his experiences and personal views as speaker during the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Clayton discusses his decision to seek a third term as speaker, his relationship with Governor William Clements, House organization, Budget Execution Act, reduction of state bureaucracy, zero-based budgetting, reduction of taxes, appropriations, the school finance bill, personal and corporate income taxes, the Peveto bill, interest rates, consumer protection legislation, "Killer Bees," and initiative-referendum.

ArchivalResource: 38 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180156930 View

Hinojosa, Juan Chuy, 1946-. Oral history interview with Juan Chuy Hinojosa 2003 [videorecording].

Title: Oral history interview with Juan Chuy Hinojosa 2003 [videorecording].

Juan 'Chuy' Hinojosa begins with his family's background and recalls their deportation to Mexico by the United States Immigration and Nautralization Services Border Patrol despite his American birthright. He shares numerous incidents of the race discrimination he experienced in South Texas, but praises the school system in Mission. He discusses his education and military service and talks about his run for the Texas House of Representatives against Eddie de la Garza, grandson to U.S. Congressman Eligio 'Kika' de la Garza. He reveals his campaign finances and the grassroots campaign strategy he learned from his mentor John Luke Hill, Jr. He speaks of his efforts in office to unify and strengthen the Mexican American caucus and tells of his budget confrontation with Speaker of the House Bill(y) Clayton in order to keep farm chemical regulation under the Commissioner of Agriculture Jim Hightower. He explains his non-partisan voting record by citing a vote on redistricting and touts his legislative successes. He elaborates on his struggle with the University of Texas System Chancellor, William H. Cunningham, to bring the Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) to South Texas. He shares his decision to run for the Texas Senate seat vacated by Carlos Truán and expresses his gratitude for the financial support he garnered in Corpus Christi, Texas to run and win against Tony Canales' granddaughter, Barbara Canales Black. He points out the differences between working in the Texas House of Representatives and working in the Texas Senate, and contrasts the Republican and Democratic Parties in Texas. He talks about a case he tried prior to introducing legislation, with the help of Judith Zafarrini, for victims of Battered Woman Syndrome and tells about the clean up operation of chemical dumping from the Hayes Sammons Chemical Company on the property of Celia Muñoz. He contrasts the camaraderie of his Marine Corps squad in Vietnam to his first-year impressions and discomfort at Georgetown University and refers to the La Raza Law Students Association he started in the Washington, D.C. area as a student.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette (VHS) (1 hr., 24 min.) : col. ; 1/2 in.Transcript: 43p.; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/415157601 View

Clayton, Billy. Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1975 July 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1975 July 16.

Interview with Bill Clayton, a farmer-rancher-businessman and former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1982), concerning his experiences and personal views as speaker during the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Clayton discusses his early political career, his personal political philosophy, his quest for the house speakership, personal observations of former Speakers Byron Tunnell, Ben Barnes, Gus Mutscher, Rayford Price, Price Daniel, Jr., the appointment of committee chairs, disposition if budget surplus, public school financing, public utilities regulation, and constitutional revision.

ArchivalResource: 48 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180146978 View

Clayton, Billy. Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1977 June 29.

Title: Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1977 June 29.

Interview with Bill Clayton, a farmer-rancher-businessman and former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1982), concerning his experiences and personal views as speaker during the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Clayton discusses the budget surplus, appropriations, the highway bill, public school financing, the Peveto bill and property taxation, government reorganization, House-Senate relations, and Governor Dolph Briscoe.

ArchivalResource: 33 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180151082 View

Clayton, Billy. Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1978 November 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1978 November 16.

Interview with Bill Clayton, a farmer-rancher-businessman and former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1982), concerning his experiences and personal views during the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Clayton discusses the treasury surplus, the sentiment for tax relief, the influence of Proposition 13 in California, gubernatorial politics, homestead exemptions, taxation on agricultural land, the Peveto bill, and the "Filthy Fifty."

ArchivalResource: 23 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180154515 View

Clayton, Billy. Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1982 April 2.

Title: Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1982 April 2.

Interview with Bill Clayton, a farmer-rancher-businessman and former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1982), concerning his experiences and personal views as speaker during the Sixty-seventh Legislature. Clayton discusses the effects of the elections of 1980, the effects of Brilab, House rules, the selection of committee chairs, initiative-referendum, interest rates, state water plan redistricting, law-and-order legislation, and his political future.

ArchivalResource: 40 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180158494 View