A Visit with the Chief

ID: 3277 ~ Source: Image courtesy of TAMACC, “TAMACC leaders and members in Washington D.C.,” photograph. TAMACC, 2025.
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The Cen-Tex Mexican American Chamber of Commerce, of which Sustaita was a founding member, in turn was one of the founding organizations of the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce, or TAMACC. In 1976, Sustaita (second from the left, bottom row) visited Washington D.C. with other representatives from TAMACC at the invitation of President Gerald Ford.

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By Maria Petrolia
Manuel "Manny" Sustaita was a Vietnam veteran, civil activist, and the founder of Waco Citizens for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Though an insurance salesman by trade, he spent most of his life…