John A. Burns

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MANY PEOPLE TALKED to me over the years about Jack Burns, some as part of the John A.Burns Oral History Project,some more informally. I appreciate their graciousness and generosity. They include: Kazuhisa Abe, Robert Alderman, Dan Aoki, Yasuki Arakaki, George Ariyoshi, Bobby Baker, Byron Baker, Ed Beechert, Tadao Beppu, Doug Boswell, Kenneth Brown, Beatrice Burns, Edward Burns, James S. Burns, John A. Burns, Jr., Sheenaugh Burns; J. Russell Cades, George Chaplin, Tom Coffman, Elmer Cravalho, John Craven, Margaret Mary Curtis, Robert Cushing, Lowell Dillingham , Nelson Doi, Buck Donham, O. Vincent Esposito, Elizabeth Farrington , Dante Fascell, Tom Gill, H. Tucker Gratz, John Griffin, Thomas Hamilton, James B. Hatcher, Seichi Hirai, Don Horio, Robert Hughes, John Hulten; Andrew Ing, Daniel K. Inouye, Mary Isa, Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Lowell Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, Jack Kawano, Ernest Lehman, Kanemi Kanazawa, Gerry Keir, Monsignor Charles A. Kekumano, Jack Kellner, Robert Kennedy, Mitsuyuki Kido, Shunichi Kimura, Bert Kobayashi, Richard Kosaki, Lefty and Clarissa Kuniyoshi, Herman Lemke; Malcolm McNaughton, Fujio Matsuda, Chuck Mau, Eugene McCarthy , Dave McClung, Robert McElrath, Norman Meller, Benjamin Menor,Ralph Miwa,Ernest Murai,William Norwood,“Major”Okada, Tadao Okimoto, Robert Oshiro, Kenneth Otagaki, Martin Pence; William Quinn,William Richardson, Juanita Roberts, Paul Rogers, Ed Rohrbough, Toshio Serizawa, Ed and Sally Sheehan, Leon Strauss, A.E. “Bud” Smyser, Matsuo Takabuki, Sakae Takahashi, Hiroshi “Scrub” Tanaka, Rene Tillich, Turk Tokita, Mike Tokunaga, Bob and Jean Trumbull, Dan Tuttle, Henry Walker, Bambi Weil, Jim Wright, Tom Yagi, Pundi Yokouchi, Nadao Yoshinaga. I have received friendship, moral support, and constant needling xiii from Dave Heenan, Ned Shultz, Mark Helbling, Dave “Stretch” Pellegrin , and Gaylord Wilcox; all of those things plus a fine editorial hand from Vic Lipman; and the repeated assurances that it would not be in vain from Gerry Keir, Sandy Zalburg, and Tom Coffman (Tom and I still haven’t finished our conversation about JAB).George Chaplin,bless him, opened wide the Hawaii Newspaper Agency’s clipping files to me. My extraordinarily fine students at the University of Hawaii–West Oahu, people like Kenny Miller, Jana Centeio, Bob Castro, Lani Nedbalek , and scores of others, have sustained me. My particular thanks to the University of Hawaii–West Oahu for two sabbatical leaves to work on the Burns book, and to both the University of Hawaii Foundation and the John A. Burns Foundation for travel grants. Stuart Ho and the Chinn Ho Foundation helped finance both the Burns Oral History Project and the publication of this book. Bea Burns, the most courageous woman I’ve ever known, and her son Jim never lost faith. Neither did Bob Oshiro. The Burns family, Sheenaugh, Jack, Jr., Brother Ed, Sister Margaret Mary, all, always, lent their gracious support. Many thanks as well to Mona Nakayama, who was there at the beginning to transcribe the Burns Oral History Project and at the end to provide research help. Megumi Kuwada, Megan Turner, and Stacey Sawa guided me through the horrors of preparing the manuscript on a new computer,checking footnotes,and formatting text.Pam Kelly at the University of Hawai‘i Press kept me on schedule, or at least close to it. Finally, my greatest debt is to Mike Holmes, a fine writer and scholar, who dragged me, kickin’ and screamin’, over the finish line. He finished the book, and it is truly his achievement. To all, mahalo nui loa, Dan Boylan xiv Acknowledgments ...