WILLIAM B. WELSH:

An Inventory of Hubert H. Humphrey Vice Presidential Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Welsh, William B., 1924-, creator.
	Title:	Hubert H. Humphrey vice-presidential files.
	Dates:	1966-1992 (bulk 1966-1969).
	Abstract:	Files kept by Welsh while he was Administrative Assistant to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
	Quantity:	2.5 cubic feet (3 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description section for shelf locations.

Reports, memoranda, speeches, correspondence, and other materials kept by William B. Welsh in his capacity as Administrative Assistant to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey during the late 1960s. Major topics include Humphrey's 1968 presidential campaign, the Vietnam War, and the response to the urban riots of the late 1960s. Also included are extensive files on Humphrey's role in the effort to eliminate the Senate's filibuster rule.

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ARRANGEMENT

These records are divided into the following three sections:


		1968 Presidential Campaign Files.
		Vice-Presidential General Office Files.
		Special Files.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. William B. Welsh. Hubert H. Humphrey Vice-Presidential Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 15,252

Processing Information:

Processed by: Lara D. Friedman-Shedlov, July 1998

Catalog ID number: 990017348160104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

1968 VICE-PRESIDENTIAL FILES

Welsh's files on Humphrey's 1968 campaign for the presidency. Materials include reports, notes, memoranda, and other correspondence. Of particular interest are documents on Humphrey's main opponents for the Democratic endorsement - Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy - and preliminary transition planning materials, prepared by Welsh and Charles Tyroler, in the event Humphrey won the election. Much of the Welsh's material concerns the campaign in Michigan, the delegates to whom Welsh was assigned.

Location

Box

144.E.18.6F

Humphrey Announcement Notes, April 1968.

Notes taken by Welsh regarding Humphrey's announcement to staff that he would run for the presidential nomination.

Miscellaneous campaign notes and memoranda, April - August 1968.

"Voter Opinion on Campaign Issues." Report, August 1968.

Campaign speech suggestions, 1968.

Includes suggestions submitted to Humphrey from J. Edgar Hoover, Ramsey Clark, and others.

"Eugene McCarthy: The Liberal Myth," undated.

Document on the McCarthy record.

"Bobby Kennedy: The Uncrowned Prince," undated.

Document on the Robert Kennedy record.

Michigan Campaign:

Welsh was assigned to the Michigan delegates.

Michigan convention delegation working file, April - June 1968. 2 folders.

Location

Box

144.E.18.6F

Quayle Survey: "A Survey of the Race for President in Michigan," September 1968.

Transition Planning:

Welsh and Charles Tyroler were assigned to initial transition planning.

Notes on transition plan for 1968-1969.

Presidential appointees: Suggestions for retention in Humphrey administration, September 1968.

A list of presidential appointees marked by John Macy (Lyndon B. Johnson's personnel chief) with suggestions for retention in Humphrey's administration.

Electoral College: Legal implications and strategies, October - November 1968.

Issues in the event of an indecisive outcome and alternative strategies.

Electoral College: Reports and memoranda on unfaithful electors, November - December 1968.

Humphrey recommendation for National Democratic Convention, October - December 1968.

Recommendations for reform of the delegate selection process and Democratic Party Rules.

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VICE-PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL OFFICE FILES

This group of files, selected by Welsh, represents major issues dealt with by the Vice President's office during Humphrey's term. The files are organized in chronological order and include reports, memoranda, analyses, and other planning documents, as well as some correspondence and press clippings. Most of the files concern Humphrey's position on the Vietnam War, and strategies for responding to the urban riots of the late 1960s.

Location

Box

144.E.18.6F

1966 VP General Office Files:

Report of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and related notes, 1966.

Implementation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Memoranda and notes, January - September 1966.

Assistance to Black Colleges Under Title III of the Higher Education Act. Report, October 1966.

Election results analyses and reports, November 1966.

Meeting with civil rights leaders. Notes and planning documents, December 1966.

Includes Department of Justice memoranda on legislative planning.

1967 VP General Office Files:

CIA national security liaison procedures, January - February 1967.

Urban Riots and Violence:

Creation of Kerner Commission on civil disorders, July 1967.

Humphrey's copy of White House materials (with his notes) from President Johnson's announcement of the creation of the Kerner Commission.

Vice-Presidential visit to post-riot Detroit, July - August 1967.

Memoranda from black leaders in federal agencies, August 1967.

Memos written in response to VP office request for suggestion actions in response to urban riots and violence.

Location

Box

144.E.18.7B

"The U.S., The Fidelista Guerrillas in Latin America, and the Radical Negro Left." Report, September 1967.

Report from the Office of Policy Planning with Welsh's notes on Roger Wilkins's reactions.

Manpower training projects, 1967.

Roy Innes Meeting and CORE. Notes, 1967.

Notes on meeting arranged in New York City by Jay Kennedy.

Fair housing materials, 1967.

Twenty-fifth amendment and vice-presidential succession. Notes and memoranda,1967.

Ghetto business opportunities. Background materials, proposals, and project, 1967. 2 folders.

Project ideas and memoranda, 1967.

Vice-presidential administrative memos to Welsh, 1967.

Year-end report to the Vice President, December 1967.

1968 VP General Office Files:

Leo Kramer Memos to Welsh, January 1968.

Location

Box

144.E.18.7B

Black power. Memoranda and reports, 1968.

Includes a Jay Richard Kennedy memo to Welsh regarding Black power and predictions of riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, along with a report from James Farmer on problems and progress in the civil rights movement, a memo on Jay Kennedy's evaluation of public figures connected with civil rights for campaign purposes, a memo drafted by Roger Wilkins at the Department of Justice on understanding civil rights and the black community, and notes and background memos on vote counting for the 1968 Civil Rights Bill.

Civil rights legislation, 1968.

Mississippi delegate selection, 1968.

Concerns Mississippi compliance with Democratic Convention rules regarding openness of delegate selection and party processes.

George Carroll memoranda to the Vice President, September 1968.

Ed Welsh Space Council Memorandum on ZOND 5, September 1968.

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SPECIAL FILES

This additional group of files, selected by Welsh, is arranged chronologically. Of particular interest are an extensive series of drafts of Humphrey's major speech on Vietnam, given in Salt Lake City in early October 1968, and files used in the vice-presidential ruling on constitutional challenge to U.S. Senate Rule XXII concerning filibusters.

Location

Box

144.E.18.7B

Constitutional challenge to Senate Rule XXII (filibusters), 1967, 1969. 4 folders.

Secret Service protection, 1968.

Miscellaneous Memoranda, 1968.

International Study Project, November 1968-June 1970.

Correspondence and interviews relating to the origin of the International Study Project staffed by Norman Holmes, W. Price McLaughlin, and others. The project was initially referred to as the Peace Foundation.

Location

Box

144.E.18.8F

International Study Project, November 1968-June 1970. 2 folders.

Vietnam:

Vietnam speeches and position proposals, August - September 1968.

Vietnam-related campaign memoranda and positions, September - October 1968.

Salt Lake City Vietnam speech. Drafts, September 1968.

Press reaction to Salt Lake City speech on Vietnam, October 1968.

Solberg correspondence regarding Humphrey biography, 1982-1983.

"Not-so-Imperial Vice-Presidency." Article and background research files, 1992. 3 folders.

Stewart article and related notes, 1992.

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RELATED MATERIALS

The Hubert H. Humphrey mayoral, senatorial, and vice-presidential papers are separately cataloged in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.

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CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Civil rights -- United States.; Electoral college -- United States.; Filibusters (Political science).; Presidential candidates -- Minnesota.; Presidents -- United States -- Elections -- 1968.; Riots -- United States.; Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Places:: Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1967.; United States -- Race relations.

Persons:: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.; McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-.; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.

Organization:: United States. Congress. Senate.

Occupation:: Vice-Presidents.

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