Oral history interview with Bill Clayton, 1982 April 2.

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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.

40 leaves ; 29 cm.

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