ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Gale Williams, Republican member of the Illinois House of Represen-tatives 1961-65 and 1967-73, discusses the issues of his years in the General Assembly: legislative and judicial reform, economic development, transportation, conservation, and agriculture, reapportionment, patronage and public employees, and leaving the legislature. He also discusses his years before the General Assembly: family and farm life near the southern Illinois town of Ava, political and civilian jobs, and his businesses.

15 tapes, 860 mins., 2 vols., 244 pp., plus index Interview by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1981 OPEN See collateral file