Roy Hofheinz (1912-1982), former Houston mayor and county judge, smoking a cigar in his Astrodome suite

📸 Dan Hardy / June 1965

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@etebur From Wikipeida,

> [Hofheinz] recounted an encounter with a "socially prominent [white] female" as mayor: "'I won't let my children sit by black children in the library; I don't know what they would catch!'" to which he retorted "Maybe tolerance".