Letter from Lyndon Johnson to Lady Bird Taylor
In this letter to Lady Bird Taylor, Lyndon B. Johnson writes that he has received two letters from her and is happy. He describes friends, help he gave to the Customs Collector in Piedras Negras, a discussion about the Texas Club, and problems experienced by cotton farmers in...
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OCR Page 1 of 11R. M. KLEBERG
GENE LATIMER, JR.
14TH DIST. TEXAS
L. E. JONES
ASSISTANT SECRETARIES
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
MEMBER COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
SECRETARY
Congress of the United States
think
House of Representatibes
Very long without Coming to Karuack for you
of standing you D.C. m the terrore - for
after our storm in July our muses county
farmers lost hundreds of tales of catton in
the
field.
they
now
have
hundreds
of
certificate
line in
for
which they have no cotton . Just across the
other counties our farmers here cotton
and no certificates hence. before they can fin
it they must pay the tax. yesterday after
Conferences with the Chief of the Cotton section,
the legal division and the departments policy
committee d ruling was issued allowing
our farmers to go across the county line
buy seed cotton for of tay, and then apply
their In certificate jin the cotton, and sell
it, in an increased income
to these farmers with left over certificates of at
least no per tale more than they would get
if their certificates mere place in the poolfrey
for instance with the Karmack farmers who hore
surplus certificates or surplus Cotton
Why am 0 miting about Customs collictors,
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