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Of course, this extraordinary exemption from taxes in the income-tax law is what eats everybody up down there. Practically nobody in Texas pays anything but capital gains tax. If you have anything beyond the minimum wage, you get an oil well in it somehow, and then you have capital gains. At least, that's the story they tell you.

Anyhow, I cameback and I tried to urge the Committee to send people down, to send money down, to send organizers down, and I told them I thought they were going to lose Texas, and they did. It was just one of those hunches I had. Sam Rayburn came to town. I had a nice talk with him. He set up headquarters over in the Adolphus Hotel, and he had a big headquarters and lots of interest, and lots of people coming and going. It was a big thing. Really, he made a tremendous drive.

I'll tell you who else I saw while I was down there---

You think he really did everything possible?

Oh, I think he did everything he could. Oh, yes. But it was a very difficult thing to do, with no money to speak of--very small budget given him--and with most of the old organization men stolen from him, you know. I mean the people he would ordinarily have worked through. But if he could have had another month or two months to work, I think