Kentucky--Politics and government

Then narrator has been Chairman of the Kentucky House Appropriations and Revenue Committee for ten years. This tape deals with the 1980 legislative session and its relation to the state budget.

Reflections of Governor Combs' administration. Judge Combs, who was the Governor of Kentucky from 1959-1963, discusses politics, civil rights and his assessment of President Kennedy.

Hill, the director and secretary of the Filson Club in Louisville, Kentucky, discusses his personal history with a strong emphasis on Kentucky politics in the early 20th century.

Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln Institute in Simpsonville, Kentucky, and then began working for Mammoth Life Insurance Company, a Louisville-based Black-owned life insurance company. She discusses her career with Mammoth Life, which was interrupted by service in the Red Cross during World War II. She discusses her experiences with the Red Cross, both during her training and during her service overseas. She discusses differences in white attitudes, in particular. She describes her work in public relations and sales after the war, as well as her political career. She was elected to the Kentucky Assembly in 1967 and began serving in 1968. She discusses her attempts to pass legislation to give tax breaks to companies that would provide training to Kentucky residents, and her successful efforts to pass a low-cost housing bill.

Moreman discusses her life in Kentucky. This includes political memories from the first half of the 20th century.

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