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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Mayor Daley was angry--the mayor of Chicago was a good friend of mine--that we would decide to spend money in a certain part of Chicago and then give it to people in that area of Chicago to spend, federal money, and he, the mayor of Chicago, didn't have
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • experiences at the convention. M: What convention? F: This is the one in which you had the blowup outside, you know, with kids Tell me about the convention. and Mayor Daley. M: That was this last one. F: Right, this last one. M: oh no, no, now I'm
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a brouhaha. Mayor Daley apparently called the White House and the Secretary's office and put on the heat for withdrawal of Frank's ruling. You'll have to get details from Frank or from Wilbur Cohen, who became the middle-man for HEW and the White House
  • ; Doug Cater; Califano; enforcement of Title VI of Civil Rights Act; first set of guidelines; trouble in Chicago with Mayor Daley; Keppel’s resignation; Dave Seeley; Pete Libassi; de facto segregation; racial isolation; teacher militancy; Education
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , that by and large it's ineffective. Could you agree with that? L: Yes. I'd also add to that that where it's too inside it's also ineffective. I think that Chicago, for example, where it's owned by Mayor Daley, is not going to be terribly effective. And the old
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the invitation of Mayor Daley, and he went to California . But he had something in his mind that he thought the Eastera'Liberals would really cut him up . To follow up that meeting, I went back to the Committee headquarters, which was 1001 Connecticut, and I
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the department had--well, actually, it was Frank Keppel in the Office of Education who had sent a letter off, an order on a Chicago school thing. Daley blew up. And then the Justice Department lawyer said that the HEW lawyers didn't have a leg to stand
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/6/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Visit with Mayor Daley of Chicago; race riots in Chicago; ceremony for UN Secretary U Thant; Lady Bird gives U Thant tour of White House grounds; Lady Bird meets Cystic Fibrosis national campaign child; nap; talk with Walter Cronkite about TV show
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • issue; Alaska statehood issue; the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; Mayor Daley; John Bailey, Governor Dempsey of Connecticut; LBJ decides not to attend the convention; the 1968 campaign and HHH's failure to win the election; occasions when Inouye
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • know, in my position as under secretary I had a good deal to do with civil disturbance matters. I did see the President in his office last summer with Ramsey Clark and Joe Califano in connection with Mayor Daley's request for the dispatch of federal
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -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
Folder, "Diary: Vol. #9, 3/31 – 10/19/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 12 (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and Daley--saying, "Don't fund it because Farmer is not interested in literacy. He's a political animal, and he's trying to build himself a political base, and he's going to pick my city as one of his ten pilots. So don't fund it." So I don't know. M
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that this is a fact--but I was told that Daley had a candidate, people like that generally do, and I think that that was the only problem with Frank Fisher who we wanted to appoint. wasn't the candidate of the mayor in Chicago. He just But Weaver stuck to his guns
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • peculiar problems with the presidency that they don't understand, so it's a very ticklish and very much slower operation. When we'd go to Chicago, we'd tell Mayor Daley, "We 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the advertising done and all of these things, and manage to get the votes. But he's never had the kind of political organization that you think of when you think of powerful politicians. M: How could he get away with that? Daley, for example. You'd think
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe in a third term, and I appointed a campaign manager named Vincent Daley, and he was campaign manager--ostensibly the campaign manager. He was the front man, and he was the one who used to hold the press conferences every day, but I used to see
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 the real fact was that, you know, we did many many careful, careful canvasses, and we always came up four, five, ten votes short. No matter how Larry O'Brien and Chuck Daley and Henry
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Yes I went to New York. for Vice President? Did you go there? I did New York with him. No, I was not in on that one. G: How about Chicago? L: Yes, I did Chicago and Mayor Daley. You mean when he ran I'm sorry, I was not. He found out
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was then, was it? M: No, it was actually the other side of Chicago. I was born in the south side. F: I don't mean Wrigley; I mean Comiskey. M: Comiskey, that's right. In fact, I lived about four blocks from the present mayor of Chicago, Mayor Daley. I used
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 and with Mayor Daley, much too quickly