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  • [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
  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • certain that-- F: I'm not trying to sound like a newsman avoiding libel. I'm just trying to keep from leading the witness. H: Sure. I don't know who influneced whom, but it was obviously an arrange- ment between Daley and President Johnson
  • left out Detroit. Incidentally, we now have a task force in Detroit. B: Do you get involved in political considerations in selecting these? V: Not at all. B: It's not considered? V: No. B: Chicago, for example. Mayor Daley's prominence
  • -reacted . Ba : Did you or any other prominent Democrats talk to Mayor Daley at this time about that kind of thing? Bi : I did not . I don't know who talked to Mayor Daley . No, I didn't . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org