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Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • problems with city hall during this stage? H: I feel any problem we had was probably in Chicago. It was not with Mayor [Richard] Daley. He was a very powerful mayor, who did not look lightly on a neighborhood developing its own power base without it going
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Kennedy. [Richard J.] Daley made his commitment. He was, as you know, the king of Chicago at that time, and a terribly interesting and able man. He made the commitment, and, of course, John Kennedy promised him everything from soup to nuts. Anything
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Carter, now Reagan. Since 1968 when Nixon came in and he wanted to do away with the Great Society, he wanted to close the Job Corps centers and finally relented. This year, 1981, there is a greater number of slots
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the polls closed, by direct communication with Governor [Richard] Hughes and the state chairman. I was reluctant to accept their initial report that was pessimistic. Hughes was very candid. He said, "It's going to be close but it doesn't look good." New
  • to Vietnam; the Anna Chennault situation and suspicion that Richard Nixon might be influencing the South Vietnam government to delay peace negotiations; Humphrey's response to Nixon's behavior; requests that Humphrey use prepared statements and not speak off
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, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . [Fritz] Lanham, and Mr. [Joseph] Mansfield, and Mr. [Richard] Kleberg, and Mr. [Milton] West . . . At least, I'm sure those members voted for Mr. Thomas. by the seniority rule. They believed in it. They stuck They themselves were products
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , for the radio, for all the rest. He gave me that date. I at that point contacted Mayor [Richard] Daley and told him of this problem, contacted the Democratic chairman, Mr. [John] Bailey, and informed them that this strike was not within the realms
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In 1953 . . . F: That's the one when they had the rioting in the street and Nayor Daley P: No, I didn't go. I wasn't there on that occasion. F: There are two thoughts on that: one is that Johnson stayed in John- son City and pulled the strings
  • Parten, J. R. (Jubal Richard), 1896-1992
Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that we were going to make the Chicago grant, in spite of the fact that a lot of people around the agency didn't like the Chicago grant. G: Mayor [Richard] Daley's influence. P: Yes. Yes. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • it might be a good idea if we gave the speaker a little competition, so we aired Mayor [Richard] Daley's oration, showing and telling about the big drama they had in the Chicago convention that cause so much turmoil--the riots and all that. You remember
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the prior day, although you do lose something of the immediacy of the situation . conferred with General [Richard T .] We Dunn, the Illinois National Guard commander, and then went to the mayor's office in Chicago . After conferring briefly` with Mayor
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This was particularly on our mind because by this time, by December of 1965, we had gotten into the fight with Mayor [Richard J.] Daley and there was a hope that Howe would be a little more politically attuned than to pick the city of Chicago as the first place to cut
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • now, that it was the Kennedy organization that arranged for it, that gave him the text of his speech. MG: You discussed your negotiation discussions with John Connally of Texas. What about some of the other party leaders like Mayor [Richard] Daley
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • worried about southern politics. But I can't remember anybody saying this is a way to slice through. G: On the other hand, you had a situation in Chicago where, as Mayor [Richard] Daley testified, the program would work his way there. Did the people who
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • some things going area of civil rights at the time I came here and the big Chicago fiasco, cutting off several million dollars in funds without following our guidelines. The cut-off of Federal Funds caused Mayor Daley-- according to newspaper
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • states ITlaybe two; he didn't always have a big ITlajority, you know-that he thought that thos e people could speak for all the people. gone. The only person that does that is [Mayor Richard he's just got a ITlachine. That's Daley], and Haig in J ers
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Brownstein; emphasis on slum rehabilitation; Mayor Richard Daley; Turkey project; Austin Oaks project; rat control program; urban mass transit; Fannie Mae; relations with White House staff; VP in charge of program of equal opportunity in employment; visit
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with in the final analysis, as we headed toward Los Angeles, were Catholic pros. David Lawrence was governor of Pennsylvania; Mike DiSalle was governor of Ohio; Dick Daley was the kingpin, of course, in Chicago and, therefore, Illinois. In each instance
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think that he elected John Kennedy; as a matter of fact I know he did. Without him, I don't think Kennedy would have been elected. Of course, without Mayor [Richard] Daley, he wouldn't have been elected either. (Laughter) But Johnson lent some balance
  • -raising for Humphrey in Texas; possible Democratic presidential nominees for 1980; Humphrey's refusal to publicize information about Anna Chennault's dealings with Richard Nixon and the South Vietnamese government in 1968; Democratic Party finances
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh TOLMACH -- III -- 2 I suppose the demonstration program largely reflected the kinds of people who were in it. It was administratively under the directorship of Richard Boone, who, as head of the program policy and planning
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Democrats side and not from Southern Democrats. And so this gentleman from Chicago whose name slips me, but Mayor (Richard) Daley (of Chicago) took him out right after that time in the primary. He was to offer the first amendment, but overnight he changed
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went because Bobby wanted to be president, and he was trying to angle himself in. G: Now, he traveled quite a bit during that month of April, went to Chicago to address the broadcasters convention, met with Mayor [Richard] Daley. R: No, I didn't go
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • tragedy that had occurred, and I came back to Atlanta and I did receive a call asking me to come up and to sit with the family when the President made his inaugural address. I was in the box with Mrs. Johnson and with the daughters and \'lith Dick Daley
  • 1960 Presidential campaign; supporting JFK; hunting with LBJ at the Ranch; the JFK assassination; the Civil Rights movement; Mrs. Johnson’s train trip in the South; Sanders’ political interactions with Richard Russell; Governors’ trip to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and governors. But he had his conflicts, as you know, with [Richard] Daley and with other mayors. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- II -- 8 was more or less getting criticism from [Richard] Daley in Chicago. So I think among the men they decided that Edith was the one to offer the amendment
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • planning. Bob Weaver and I sat down and picked seven cities geographically separate, gave it the semblance of being bipartisan by selecting a Republican city, which I think was Honolulu at the time. I called [Richard] Daley and said, "We've got a new
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that with the divisions in the party, that Richard Nixon was absolutely a cinch to be elected and that unless he would consent to go on the ticket, then the ball game was over. That's how that happened. The next visitor in the room was former Governor of Texas, John
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • haven't got time to worry about that. Let's keep going. Let's get this plane on the road and let's roll!" F: Did your dad have a feeling that Johnson was in control of the Chicago convention, or that [Mayor Richard J.] Daley was, or that he was? 23
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [Chicago mayor Richard] Daley. I, of course, could never know. Maybe they'd been approached directly by the Kennedys and told some of these things, but I did not have the feeling that it was a party line statement on their part. F: Yes. Of course, down
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . He's disloyal to me. He's a trouble-maker. He's . . ." this, that, or the other thing. He had gotten, I think, from a number of people including Mayor [Richard J.] Daley and from other political people that the OEO people were always trying to undermine
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to agree that although he found it difficult to agree with Mayor [Richard] Daley and with other leading mayors, who for other reasons were not the most popular people in our ranks, on substantive program ideas, he had to agree that you can't have a federal
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • to Chicago, and Mayor [Richard] Daley hit the fan, and then it did escalate pretty rapidly. But I was never aware--I was never called on to play a role of having to make all these kinds of little adjustments to accommodate congressmen. There may have been
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the old Cannon Building; there you had a three-room office. I was fortunate in getting up to the fifth floor. And along one wing, the wing that goes down First Street, was a fellow by the name of Richard Nixon, who came here two years after I did
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the first contact I had following that. Then this began to unfold. I don't recall the exact chronology, but it happened with great rapidity. One contact was from Colonel Jake Arvey, a lifelong Democratic leader out of the Daley organization in Chicago
  • The Humphreys' visit with the O'Briens the day before Richard Nixon's inauguration; O'Brien's decision to become president of McDonnell and Company as Murray McDonnell became chairman of the board; Ira Kapenstein and Phyllis Maddock moving
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • quite accidentally. There was a fellow, Princeton student, named Richard Nelson, who'd been deeply moved by Eric Goldman as a professor at Princeton. I don't know whether he was working for the Vice President or wh3.t, b'..lt he urged Johnson .f