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Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

issue; Alaska statehood issue; the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; Mayor Daley; John Bailey, Governor Dempsey of Connecticut; LBJ decides not to attend the convention; the 1968 campaign and HHH's failure to win the election; occasions when Inouye

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

left out Detroit. Incidentally, we now have a task force in Detroit. B: Do you get involved in political considerations in selecting these? V: Not at all. B: It's not considered? V: No. B: Chicago, for example. Mayor Daley's prominence

Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

know, in my position as under secretary I had a good deal to do with civil disturbance matters. I did see the President in his office last summer with Ramsey Clark and Joe Califano in connection with Mayor Daley's request for the dispatch of federal

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

says, "All right. They're having a big testimonial for me in Chicago--Mayor Daley and all of them--and you will be the main speaker. And at that time, you can make the announcement.'~ So that was about two weeks. So sure, enough, they had this big

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-reacted . Ba : Did you or any other prominent Democrats talk to Mayor Daley at this time about that kind of thing? Bi : I did not . I don't know who talked to Mayor Daley . No, I didn't . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and Daley--saying, "Don't fund it because Farmer is not interested in literacy. He's a political animal, and he's trying to build himself a political base, and he's going to pick my city as one of his ten pilots. So don't fund it." So I don't know. M

Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that this is a fact--but I was told that Daley had a candidate, people like that generally do, and I think that that was the only problem with Frank Fisher who we wanted to appoint. wasn't the candidate of the mayor in Chicago. He just But Weaver stuck to his guns

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

blunder on our part. We thought--Shriver thought that he had Mayor Daley's concurrence in putting the project on. There had been much discussion prior to its funding about its being operated by the Chicago Community Action organization, CCUO

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, there was beginning to be great disaffection for our Vietnam policy, not just among the liberals, but a lot of politicians were beginning to be concerned about it. Dick Daley was concerned about it, for example; I mean, he wasn't going to publicly say

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

peculiar problems with the presidency that they don't understand, so it's a very ticklish and very much slower operation. When we'd go to Chicago, we'd tell Mayor Daley, "We 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the advertising done and all of these things, and manage to get the votes. But he's never had the kind of political organization that you think of when you think of powerful politicians. M: How could he get away with that? Daley, for example. You'd think

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

believe in a third term, and I appointed a campaign manager named Vincent Daley, and he was campaign manager--ostensibly the campaign manager. He was the front man, and he was the one who used to hold the press conferences every day, but I used to see

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 the real fact was that, you know, we did many many careful, careful canvasses, and we always came up four, five, ten votes short. No matter how Larry O'Brien and Chuck Daley and Henry

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

think even Mayor Daley had some feeling about this. G: He did? H: Yes. My impression was that he had some feeling about this. So, you know, there. were some of the pros up there who felt like they ought to get him back into the thing. In fact, I

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Yes I went to New York. for Vice President? Did you go there? I did New York with him. No, I was not in on that one. G: How about Chicago? L: Yes, I did Chicago and Mayor Daley. You mean when he ran I'm sorry, I was not. He found out

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it was then, was it? M: No, it was actually the other side of Chicago. I was born in the south side. F: I don't mean Wrigley; I mean Comiskey. M: Comiskey, that's right. In fact, I lived about four blocks from the present mayor of Chicago, Mayor Daley. I used

Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 and with Mayor Daley, much too quickly