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Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a newspaperman for twenty years before I went to Congress, and I was covering Mayor [Richard] Daley's press conferences every day in the City Hall. One day he asked me if I'd like to run for Congress out here on the northwest side, which was really strong
  • and the volatile nature of the 1960s; a dispute between Francis Keppel, the Office of Education and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; problems with funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [ESEA]; the 1968 Democratic National Convention and LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • way and voted--the Illinois delegation swung to us. G: Is that Mayor [Richard] Daley? C: That was Daley and-(Long pause) Then I guess we announced immediately the board. Do you have that chronology? You've got my chronology there. Let me just take
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • between them? K: I have no evidence on that one way or the other. G: Now, I notice that after the March 31 speech, both Senator [Mike] Mansfield and Mayor [Richard] Daley cited the possibility of a presidential draft, that even though the President
  • ; negotiations with Israel over Phanton jets; Russian relations; rioting and the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s assassination; the possibility of a presidential draft; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; neutrality among LBJ’s staff members; Humphrey’s campaign
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • met with Mayor [Richard] Daley then. Do you remember that trip? J: Yes, it was the very next day. We flew out there the morning of April 1. He spoke to the broadcasters. I thought it was one of the best speeches he'd ever made. He gave a review
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had was with Chicago. G: [Mayor Richard] Daley? C: And it had its wonderfully light moments, as well as its deadly moments. G: Really? C: Well, HEW moved on Chicago. That was the first school district they threatened to jerk funds from
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , to head up the organiz ations in I Texas-­ F: This speaks well for your bipartis anship- ­ M: And I turned them both down. Sam Rayburn had talked to me at that time about heading up the campaign in Texas for Stevenso n, and Sid Richards on and C
  • Daley; Mann's son's recollections; tidelands controversy
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the case of Chicago. Do you think that HEW, in Johnson's mind, was sufficiently sensitive to the political concerns of Mayor [Richard] Daley and-- J: No, I think that he didn't think they were sensitive enough to the problems that Mayor Daley had
  • to LBJ; John Gardner replacing Anthony Celebrezze as secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); Mayor Richard Daley's problems with HEW; civil rights leaders not being invited to the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; the Watts riots; having
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • County delegation brought against Daley's delegation by Jesse Jackson and others; the challenge to the California delegation, on the unit rule, which was the rule in California. The Humphrey people decided to challenge on the basis that there should
  • Committee's recommendation to allocate California delegates entirely on the basis of popular vote; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's offer to split the Illinois delegation; parliamentary decision-making regarding what constituted a majority of delegates
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Then [Richard] Daley met us at the airport; Dan Rostenkowski was there, too. And the four of us went in Daley's car, walked onto the stage at, I guess, the old Stevens or what's the Hilton Hotel out there now. Lowell Thomas was talking to the convention and knew
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , except in terms of Vietnam. It wasn't a surprise to me that Humphrey's people were able to move effectively in the delegate hunt and avoid the primary side. It was the right strategy and it was working. G: You did have Richard Hughes in New Jersey? O
  • at the convention; the role of LBJ and the DNC the convention; efforts to establish dialogue between the Humphrey campaign and young people; violence caused by the youth movement and Chicago police; altercations at the convention between Abe Ribicoff and Richard
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was what. G: Let me ask you about some of the party leaders, like Mayor [Richard] Daley. R: Yes. G: What do you think Daley would have done if Johnson had stayed in the race? Would he have supported Johnson or would he have supported--? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [Richard] Daley called me and made the request, and I immediately made the request of the attorney general through the White House switchboard. I had no problems, no difficul- ties in reaching anyone that I had to talk to, no problems of reaching
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • basis they dealt with us on, as long as we were able to get these programs and money. F: In these early War on Poverty days did mayors like you and Richard Daley and John Lindsay pretty much support the administration's efforts? C: Yes. John Lindsay
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Some large part of the demand, you'd have to call spontaneous. There were just too many applications to have been induced. During 1964 before the act was passed, I met with Dick Daley in Chicago, with Jerry Cavanagh, who was then mayor of Detroit
  • ; outreach to encourage grant submission; congressmen, such as Carl Perkins and Adam Clayton Powell, getting involved in grant applications; mayors' involvement in CAP; problems with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; White House involvement in CAP
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Papers; LBJ as a raconteur; work with Lady Bird; Richard Daley; public libraries.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , extending beyond "you have my support, Mr. President." Not any lengthy comment. No one had any lengthy comment. I think probably Senator [Richard] Russell did. But one or the other may have discussed the marine aspect. G: What about the surgical bombing
  • stoicism; JFK's close friends; socializing with the Johnsons; story about LBJ feeding cigarettes to a deer at the LBJ Ranch; LBJ and gift-giving; LBJ's concern over the apparent relationship between Irish political insiders such as JFK and Richard J. Daley
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and fifty dollars a plate. There's another picture from him where we gave an award to Richard Daley. He had just been elected mayor by the biggest margin in the history of anything. was over, the President came over to me. And when the dinner I was seated
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • indirect. I think it was all through the juvenile delinquency committee, and that was [Richard] Boone and [David] Hackett. I think he was still probably--I wouldn't say sulking in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • organization, he was the biggest wheel I had ever heard about in barbering and he ought to be the national president. He bought it like it was a godsend to him. He loved it. It was for these Democrats, because Chicago was Democratic, [Richard] Daley
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • taken up. And puts, I think, both the role of ~myor Daley and the President in a more detached context than is stated in my 'a +-,.., ". f:''' ,t; r. P. \' rae p~J document F: Will do. could be just filed. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Hodding Carter and some others rather than this more, I guess you would call--well. . . . How about Mayor [Richard] Daley in Chicago? C: Daley had a lot of problems with the poverty program. I think from his vantage point he saw it as a threat
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • millions of Republicans that don't want to vote for Richard Nixon, but they're not going to vote for Jack Kennedy; they're not going to vote for Hubert Humphrey; they're not going to vote for Adlai Stevenson. They're going to vote for Nixon in preference
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was received. O: It was received well by the audience, but you'd expect that. It's the Democratic Party chairman making a speech attacking a Republican administration, specifically Richard Nixon. As far as general press reaction, my recollection
  • ' photographs of the meeting; O'Brien's speeches and travel during the 1970 congressional elections; O'Brien's stop in Chicago and Mayor Richard Daley's influence there; Hubert Humphrey as the titular head of the DNC rather than LBJ; LBJ's and Truman's interest
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and for that reason had a difficult time. G: Let's talk a little about politics surrounding this period of time. Both Mayor [Richard] Daley and Mike Mansfield and a number of others cited the possibility of a draft, that even though LBJ would remove himself from
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • organizations found in Philadelphia under the leadership of Bill Green, Chicago under the leadership of Richard J. Daley, Minnesota under the leadership of the Democratic-Farm-Labor group, and in Albany, New York; O'Brien's concern about the two-party system
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • efficient. For those machines, your communications were totally irrelevant. But by the time he became president, the machines were pretty well dead. [Richard J.] Daley was still alive; [David] Lawrence was still working, but the rest were pretty well gone
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Mayor [Richard] Daley was incensed at it and probably called the President or one of the president's assistants and the President was very much annoyed. And I was one of those who was in the meeting with the President at about seven o'clock at night
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : And Richard Daley. K: Yes. M: What I need to know is, what is fact and what is fiction? K: I'll give you what I can, but obviously I hope that you'll be asking other people on this. M: Sure. K: Because this is one of these classic cases where a man's
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had two influential senators, too. e: Oh, yes. So we had to counteract that, and we pulled all those little kids up and sat them down in the House hearing room. It all worked out. The other one was when Mayor [Richard] Daley of Chicago got
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was a conversation I had with Mayor [Richard] Daley, initiated by him, where he expressed great concern about Vietnam, where it seemed to be tending, what it was causing by way of disruption and growing public concern. You wouldn't find a greater hawk than Dick Daley
  • Richard Daley about rising concerns about Vietnam; William Fulbright's opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Bob Hardesty's work providing congressmen with statements and material for their newsletters that were favorable to LBJ's legislative program
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for vice president—that he didn’t think they would win the election—and there are some people who think they didn’t. (Laughter) Mayor Daley helped a good deal in Chicago. G: What do you think about that? V: What do I think? G: About the irregularities
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as hell and what have you. He thought they had no political sense and that was confirmed when they tried to cut off funds from Mayor [Richard] Daley without even following the provisions of the statute. (Interruption) There's September 2, when I'm saying
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Action is its flexibility. That is, it could be something different in New York, it would certainly be something different in Chicago where Dick Daley was in charge, and it would certainly be something different in Saginaw. And that was the point
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee; testimony before Congress from Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and businessmen regarding the poverty bill; Job Corps; whether or not Congress understood Community Action Programs; criticism of Adam
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIHJEES: GOVERNOR AND NRS. RICHARD HUGHES (Betty Hughes) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Hughes' home in Princeton, New Jersey Tape 1 of 2 F: First of all, Governor Hughes, tell us briefly where you came from, how you gradually moved up
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  • Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • City, it wasn't greatly different from the ordinary operations every day. I believe Joe Califano and his staff had primary control of that. F: I know in the latter days some coolness developed between him and Senator Richard Russell over
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was this fund raising? K: Yes, the President's Club, with [Richard] Daley. I was in the President's bedroom--Ben didn't know this--when he called him and offered him the job as head of HEW. And Ben explained that for business reasons he couldn't take it on. I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office