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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.
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/27/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • LBJ's 60th birthday; Lady Bird watched Democratic National Convention until 3 a.m.; Lady Bird talks to Lynda Robb on phone; Mrs. Richard Daley invites Lady Bird to luncheon in Chicago; LBJ & Jake Pickle swim; Liz Carpenter calls with Convention
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/4/1967 (Item)
  • SS T Jo e Califan o (pl ) BessAbell Senato Bess Abell r Stuar t Symingto n - °d t Rosto w ' Q \ replacement 11:02 f_ e Morse e . Richard Daley . Mayo r o f Chicag o ^ Secretary SecretaryFreeman 10:05a t 10:14a t Ii -> | 10:25a t toas
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
Folder, "Gen LE/AG 5-1 [LEGISLATION - PEST CONTROL]," WHCF LE, Box 27 (Item)
  • -···-·-·-··--MoN0Av:·0c:rai£il-9,-··1"-967 RICHARD WILSON -House Republicans Stumble on Food-Aid Issue ,.. .. - . Republicans in the House, a!tcr ·rc>versing themselves on a fod. allpped on the blinders again quite naturally a.nd
Folder, "Roy Wilkins (NAACP)," Name Files, WHCF, Box W-312 (Item)
  • ADLER, Richard, Saddle River, N.Jer. MARCH,Frederic, New York City Telegrams sent September 27, 1965 WILKINS R New York Ci~ ~lRENCE, Harding, Beverly Hills I Calif• MacBRIDE, Rhoades, Montvale, N. Jer. ---.oomm:-,,rthur, New York City DAVIES, Ralph K
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Jan. 1968]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • primarily against Mayor Richard J. Daley. According to Alinsky, Mayor Daley's threat to get tough with demonstrators this summer will backfire. He said Mayor Daley's "blunderings have put Chicago on top of the powder keg that will blow so high Detroit
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
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Fund Raising Dinner, Chicago, Illinois, 4/23/1964" (Item)
  • that was carrying the policy of women in government too far. It is always good to come to the town where Mayor Daley is host. Starting out en this trip, I was apprehensive we might be hit by lightning -­ for reasons you can understando But Lyndon said, "Don't
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)
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1960" (Item)
  • . discoverlbj.org LBJ meets with members of the National Home Builders Association who are attending their convention in Chicago. At 10 a.m. he meets with Mayor Richard Daley in his office. At noon LBJ addresses the Southtown Economist Club in Chicago. He and John
Folder, "Young, Whitney M. (Jr.)," Name Files, WHCF, Box Y-041 (Item)
  • . Leon Sullivan ·Mayor Walter Washington 'Whitney Young, Jr. . Vice President Humphrey Roy Wilkins Judge Leon Higg,nbotham Clarence Mitchell, Ill Hon. Robert Weaver Mayor Richard Hatcher Hon. Nicholas Katzenbach -: r - :.• t
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1956" (Item)
  • , but adds that Daniel has been sympathetic, understanding and cooperative, “and he has been as able as anyone with whom I have worked.” CTJ attends premiere of Richard III at the Playhouse and the post-premiere party honoring Sir Laurence Olivier. She
Folder, "FBI - Disturbances and Racial Disturbances," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (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
Folder, "NUCLEAR - Nuclear Detonation - CHICOM Bomb," Files of Charles E. Johnson, NSF, Box 36 (Item)
  • WITHALLOTHERPEACE-LOVING PEOPLEAND COUNTRIES OP' TKE WORLD,FOR THE NOBLEAIMOF COMPLETELY PROHIBITING DESTROYING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. ANDTHOROUGHLY 28 OEC l830Z CF/CP 90, ATOI SMASHER VASHINGTON AP>•MATOR RICHARD J. DALEY PLEDGED CHICAGO•s COOPERATIONWITH ATOMIC
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)