Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 97
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Allred
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--Robo-typers, Royaltypers--things like this, where you can work
out a form letter, but the person still gets an individually typed
letter rather than a mimeographed letter. In the United States
Senate, I know, they even have machines that are capable of signing
a senator's signature. If you write him on a very popular issue,
or a very hot issue, it's very likely that you'll get a reply that
appears to be typewritten and personally signed, which the senator
himself neither saw nor touched. His staff handled the whole thing.
As I say, your family life does suffer. Your time is taken
up with other things. I estimate that I eat only about three to
five meals a week at home during the session. The rest of them
were the League of Women Voters breakfast or lunch with the
lobbyists or some dinner somewhere. A little sidelight, and
probably because I'm overweight, I noticed it more than most: but
I had several people comment that everybody puts on weight during
the session because you go to all these places and most of them
are steak and potatoes and this type of thing and it really stacks
the weight on you.
There are some pleasant experiences and some funny ones.
About 29 years ago, my dad was made an honorary member of the
Alabama-Coushatta Indian tribe over in East Texas. He was, as I
understand it, the first chief executive of Texas since Sam Houston
to visit them. And I happened to be with him. So when I was about
five years old, I was made an honorary member of the tribe. It
just so happened that in the Appropriations Committee hearing thisyear, the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe made a request for some additional
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Marcello, Ronald E.; Kamp, H. W. & Allred, David. Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967, book, November 20, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223569/m1/98/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.