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  • 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
  • : 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And tried to keep my contact at absolutely a ground Didn't talk to leaders. There was one difficulty: whether we should tell [r",layor Richard] Daley I was in there, because politically.. We finally decided, Watson and I -- he may consulted
  • 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
  • , and I didn't blame him a bit, didn't blame him a bit . that, he went out and tried to amend the bill . But with all But we created, God, I don't know how much ill will with that! Also, we were having a lot of trouble on the House side, and Mayor Daley
  • they were both definite candidates and both had powerful organizations and very well financed--and bloc votes. I mean, the big city vote--you couldn't jar Mayor Daley to even give you the time of day for Adlai Stevenson, even though he was from Illinois
  • party, but the national party. I believe that when Mr. Daley, if he was involved, and Mr. Hughes and Hubert Humphrey, when this group decided that they would throw out the Maddox delegation in order to let the whole country see that they were totally
  • says, "All right. They're having a big testimonial for me in Chicago--Mayor Daley and all of them--and you will be the main speaker. And at that time, you can make the announcement.'~ So that was about two weeks. So sure, enough, they had this big
  • blunder on our part. We thought--Shriver thought that he had Mayor Daley's concurrence in putting the project on. There had been much discussion prior to its funding about its being operated by the Chicago Community Action organization, CCUO
  • , there was beginning to be great disaffection for our Vietnam policy, not just among the liberals, but a lot of politicians were beginning to be concerned about it. Dick Daley was concerned about it, for example; I mean, he wasn't going to publicly say
  • think even Mayor Daley had some feeling about this. G: He did? H: Yes. My impression was that he had some feeling about this. So, you know, there. were some of the pros up there who felt like they ought to get him back into the thing. In fact, I