Interviews with Weldon Hart, a public relations executive and executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. The interviews includes Hart's experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment Commission; organization of a Texas political machine; lobbying for the highway construction industries of Texas. The interviews took place on three separate dates: August 8, 1966, February 6, 1967, and July 3, 1967.
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Oral History Interview with Weldon Hart, 1966-1967
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Oral History Interview with Weldon Hart, August 8, 1966
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Oral History Interview with Weldon Hart, February 6, 1967
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Oral History Interview with Weldon Hart, July 3, 1967
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Interviews with Weldon Hart, a public relations executive and executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. The interviews includes Hart's experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment Commission; organization of a Texas political machine; lobbying for the highway construction industries of Texas. The interviews took place on three separate dates: August 8, 1966, February 6, 1967, and July 3, 1967.
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Brewer, Thomas B.; Odom, E. Dale & Hart, Weldon.Oral History Interview with Weldon Hart, 1966-1967,
book,
December 18, 1967;
Denton, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223557/:
accessed May 22, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Oral History Program.