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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • met with Mayor [Richard] Daley then. Do you remember that trip? J: Yes, it was the very next day. We flew out there the morning of April 1. He spoke to the broadcasters. I thought it was one of the best speeches he'd ever made. He gave a review
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • City, it wasn't greatly different from the ordinary operations every day. I believe Joe Califano and his staff had primary control of that. F: I know in the latter days some coolness developed between him and Senator Richard Russell over
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • Richard Daley; LBJ meeting with Eisenhower; Hubert Humphrey’s campaign; LBJ, Wilbur Mills and a surtax; Poor People's Campaign and consumer measures LBJ supported.
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