Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 11
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"grew as fast as the government department." In any event, the
type of help that you can render is quite often of an advisory nature:
simply telling someone where to go or calling some official's
attention to a problem. For example, a man came to me the other
day. He had sold a car and the man he had sold it to had sold it
again, intending for it to be junked. Consequently, he had not
registered the change of title. The man who bought it as an agent
for the junk dealer, sold it instead to another person, and again
didn't register the title change. So the title remained in this
particular man's name. The man who finally ended up with the car
had had several wrecks with it, and the Department of Public Safety
was trying to take away the license of the man who had sold the car
two years before.
He was writing and squabbling with them back and forth. When
he came to me about it, I realized--having worked around government
and so forth--that he might be squabbling with the wrong department.
DPS deals with drivers license but the Department of Motor Vehicles,
which is under the Highway Department, deals with car registration.
So I called that day and talked to a man in the Highway Department.
And I think I was helpful in getting this thing straightened out.
Now I want to specify here: political influence has a bad connota-
tion and quite often I think people tend to suspect the worst of
the politician when usually it's not so. There are some, certainly,
who have broken the rules and violated the laws. But most of the
help that a man in politics is able to give is within the law. I'mnot ruling out that sometimes people do go beyond the law and I think
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Marcello, Ronald E.; Kamp, H. W. & Allred, David. Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967, book, November 20, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223569/m1/12/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.