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Interview with Eligio (Kika) de la Garza - Part 02
Identifier
ELIBR-0078-2
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Creation Date
8-5-2009
Description
- 00:00 - Introduction.
- 00:25 - Can you talk a little bit about the first time you ran for the congress?
- 02:50 - Did you have money for the first campaign?
- 03:40 - First run for the congress experiences.
- 04:40 - Kika has the support of his friends, family, and campaign manager for his first campaign.
- 06:30 - Kika remembers that there were not airports so it was harder to transport from place to place. “It was challenging but interesting.”
- 07:00 - Some of the congress members of South Texas background.
- 08:30 - Political powers at that time.
- 09:45 - What were some of the issues that you faced during your first campaign?
- 10:00 - Education – one of the major issues.
- 10:40 - Health – Kika supported Medicare and Medicaid.
- 13:00 - It was a hard campaign.
- 13:00 - They did not have a lot of money for the first campaign, however they had a lot of support.
- 13:30 - People who supported Kika’s first campaign.
- 14:30 - Texas delegation – members of congress.
- 16:00 - Kika was welcomed to the congress.
- 16:30 - Kika joined the Agriculture committee.
- 17:00 - Kika the youngest man at the congress at that time.
- 17:35 - Kika became chair of the Agriculture committee – the youngest chair of the committee.
- 20:40 - Political leaders.
- 22:10 - Kika was invited, together with his wife, to almost all the functions of the White House.
- 25:00 - Relations with Mexico and South America.
- 25:50 - Kennedy and the new progressive programs.
- 27:00 - Local Education.
- 30:00 - Federal Education and the creation of new buildings.
- 34:00 - Food programs for poor areas.
- 44:00 - Founding for food programs and the results.
- 46:00 - Kika explains that these programs were also nutritional.
- 48:50 - Benefits of the nutritional programs.
- 50:26 - Do you think that the money spent in these programs impacted the economy of the area?
- 1:00:00 - End of the interview.
Format
.MP4
Length
01:02:11
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Rio Grande Valley Oral Histories Collection; Eligio (Kika) de la Garza - Part 02, 2009/08/05. ELIBR-0027. University Library, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX. Accessed via https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/rgvoralhistories/539
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