LBJ and Homer Thornberry Discuss the Budget (1960)

Duration: 0:03:55

Year Published: 1960

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: A seemingly informal conversation between President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Texas Representative Homer Thornberry is captured in this black and white 1960 news footage as the two men discuss matters of the budget. Thornberry served as a U.S. Representative from 1948 to 1963. President Johnson, who was a Texas Senator at the time of this film, and Thornberry give audiences an overview of where Congress stands in regards to government spending and future legislative action.