ILLINOIS STATECRAFT Pisciotte, political scientist, discusses his defeat for State Senate in 1974 and his appointment as Director of the Department of Business and Economic Development by Governor Dan Walker. He discusses his work for the Walker administration, the Illinois Manufacturing Association, the liaison system, patronage, budget meetings, and United Way campaigns; Walker's personnel, Bill Goldberg, Victor de Grazia, Norton Kay, and David Green; relationships with the press and the legislature; and events of Walker's Administration and the 1970's: economy, Vietnam War, the new Illinois Constitution, media, taxes, and Lt. Governor Hartigan.

2 tapes, 135 mins., 34 pp., plus index Interview by Marilyn Huff Immel, 1981 OPEN Memoir bound with L976 Terry Lutes Memoir See collateral file