he went on a very public campaign that jim wright needed to be investigated, and wright felt personally offended some of the language that mr. gingrich used against tam and the charges that he brought against him and his wife, betty. many years later, after speaker wright resigned, he came to tcu. in 1995, he actually wrote a letter to newt gingrich addressing the scandal. i will read some of that. newt, there are some things i want to say to you and this is the best way to do it. these words are written not for publication but as a personal communication between you and me. first, even though we have some basic disagreements over the proper role of government and society, i respect your opinion, as i expect others to respect mine. while disagreeing with the -- iantial stress of your believe the speaker should have a specific cohesive program and a definite action oriented timetable. that is leadership. next, i want you to know that i was angry and personally offended when you call me a crook. that language was inappropriate and uncalled for. i am not aware that anyone has ever before c

i'll talk about the jim wright have at tcu.e jim wright was a long time the dallas fort worth area. he was born in fort worth and lived all over texas and oklahoma during his childhood. he went to weatherford college that's what brought him back to this area. he ran for the texas legislature after his service in world war ii and served a year there. then he became the mayor of weatherford, texas and from the forrship, he went on to run congress he was elected to congress to represent texas's inh straight district 1954. years and then0 in 1986, became the speaker of house of congress. 1989 he resigned from congress and came back to fort became a professor here at tcu where he taught in the political science department. he also authored many books and fixture around campus. we brought his paper here at tcu. we have them. we usually have several researchers a year come and do the paper and papers on his time in congress. politics of the cold war and ultimately, partisanship surrounding his resignation from congress and scandals. all those topics that people do research in. we do have a

another protÉge of rayburn's was jim wright from here in fort worth. was elected to congress in 1954 and served for many years in the public works committee but used his position as a member of the texas congressional delegation and a member of the public works committee to win a very narrow victory after the election of 1976 to be majority leader and part of his appeal was that jimmy carter had just been elected president of the united states and jim wright using his southern accent is greatest advantage said he like to be cut or spoke without an accent. he was elected majority leader where he served until typical meals election in 1986 and served one term in about half a second term as speaker of the house before his resignation in 1989. you have to look at the new deal. it was helped facilitated greatly by john garner early on in the texas delegation. there the impact they had -- toward the ends of the second term as vice president against the third term and and by people like [inaudible] from dallas was chair of the house judiciary committee and de

he went on a very public campaign that jim wright had to be investigated. wright felt personally offended by some of the language that mr. gingrich used against him, and the charges that he brought against him and his wife, betty. many years later, after speaker tcu.t resigned, he came to then in 1995, he actually wrote a letter to newt gingrich addressing the scandal. i would read some of that. newt, there are some things i would love to say to you, and this is the best way to do it. these words are written, not for publication but as a personal communication between me.and first, even though we had some basic disagreement of the proper role of government and society, i respect your opinion, is a respect others to respect mine. your tactical leadership in carrying your agenda. i believe a speaker should have a specific, cohesive program and eight definite action oriented table. i want you to know that i was angry and personally offended when you called me a crook. that language was inappropriate and uncalled for. i'm not aware that anybody had ever before c

in a real sense the portrait of jim wright represents the two sides of jim wright, the leader in congress during the time he served there and then also appropriate place right here in fort worth which he called home. >> "lone star leader" was a project that tony champagne my co-author and i undertook as we did a full-length study of the austin boston connection which was the passing of power in the house of representatives between representatives from boston and representatives from texas, a coalition that dominated politics in the u.s. house of representatives from 1931 when john garner became speaker of the house until 1989 when jim wright left the speakership. it was a missing project, but in doing that we were -- interesting project. we were going to archives of many of the influential people who were from texas and it served in congress during the 20th century. once that project was finished, we thought it would be wonderful to do kind of a series of short pieces on many of interesting people who served from texas in congress both in the house and in the senate. and so "lone star lea

[applause] >> jim wright, governor, ladies and gentlemen. there are no faint hearts in fort worth, and i appreciate your being here this morning. mrs. kennedy is organizing herself, it takes longer. [laughter] president kennedy: but of course, she looks better than we do when she does it. but we appreciate your welcome. this city has been a great western city, in defense of the west, cattle, oil and all the rest. the strength in this city and of the strength in this state, and the strength in this country. what we are to do in this country and around the world, i believe, is quite simple. that is to build a military structure which will defend the vital interests of the united states. and in that great cause, fort worth as it did in world war ii, as it did in developing the best bomber system in the world then, the b-58, and as it will do in a developing the best fighter system in the world, the cfx, fort worth will play a part. [applause] >> we're at the corner of 8th street and main in downtown fort worth, and it was a couple of yards from

another protege of rayburn's was jim wright. and he served for many years on the publishing works committee, but used his position as a member of the texas congressional delegation and as a member of the public works committee win a very narrow victory after the election of 1976 to become majority leader. part of his appeal was jimmy carter was just elected president of the united states, and wright, using his southern accent, said that he liked jimmy carter, spoke without an accent, and so he was elected majority leader where he served until tip o'neill's resignation in -- after the election of 1986, and then served one full term and ball half of a second term as speak he of the house before his resignation in 1989. >> you have to look at the new deal, which was helped facilitate greatly by john nance garner very early on and other major figures in he texas delegation. they had the impact on kind of diminishing franklin roosevelts role here in texas, both by john nance garner, speaking out turneds the end of his second term as

another protege was jim wright from fort worth. he was elected to congress in 1954 and served for many years on the public works committee but used his position as a member of the texas congressional delegation and as a member of the public works committee to win a very narrow oftory after the election 1976 becoming majority leader. part of his appeal was jimmy carter had just been elected president and right, using his likedrn accent, said he jimmy carter spoke without an accent so he was elected majority leader he served until the election of 1986. he served a full term and half of another as speaker before his resignation in 1989. you have to look at the new deal , which was helped greatly by john nance garner early on and a number of major figures in the texas delegation that had the impact on diminishing franklin role, but by john nance garner speaking out for the end of his second term against the third term and by people like the chair of the house judiciary committee and de facto killed president roosevelt's court packing p

[applause] >> jim wright, governor, ladies and gentlemen. there are no faint hearts in fort worth, and ap

christian university, and a look at our 40th speaker of the house -- 48th speaker of the house, jim wright. [video clip] >> these are some diaries kept by speaker wright during his tenure in congress. this did not come to us in the original ascension of his papers, but we received them after his death. they offer a very candid insight into his time in congress. they cover most of the 1970's and some of the 1980's. they do not go all the way up through his requirement and -- retirement and up archer from congress, but they offer some very candid insights into what was going on at the time. things he would not have been able to put in correspondence to colleagues or anyone else. thisne in particular is interesting. there is a passage from january -- it2 in which he says is sunday. uneventful week behind us. reagan's tuesday night state of the union appearance was a triumph of rhetoric. lines well delivered with the arch rock -- adroit after's skill which made it appear as if they were springing each moment from his heart. host: travel to fort worth, texas. our c-span local content vehicle tr

i am going to talk today about the gym right papers that we jim wright papers. he lived all over texas during his childhood. he

i'm jim cramer, and i will see you monday narrator: in this episode of "american greed"... captain darryl wrightisn't afraid to show it. darryl used his purple heart, flaunted it, and he weaponized it. narrator: as a wounded warrior, wright collects more than $700,000 in government benefits until an undercover investigation unravels this "hero's" story. 99.9% of that stuff is not true. that did not happen. i think he enjoyed getting free money. we started to refer to this as the "purple heart fraudster case." narrator: wright's victims are veterans who feel their sacrifices have been tarnished by his lies,

when my uncle worked for jim wright, it was very much a blue town. there's a lot of rapid growth, a lot of dynamic system here.people coming in from everywhere. i would say for the first half of my life, it was not unusual at all to be in fort worth, and when you met someone, they had some sort oftory he. they had some sort of history or story about being here. now you meet people here that have absolutely no history. that's bad because we want people to know the history, but it is good because we want new people here. we have people bringing their education, bringing their families, that are coming here to grow and prosper, and help this place continue to grow, just like when our grandparents moved here from navarro county and finally decided to settle in what -- fort worth. my dad's family decided to settle from marshall, texas and move here to fort worth. we need new people, new growth, new people to come here and learn about the history, the characteristics of fort worth, and make their own history. i say, on, we need growth, keep coming. is good