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  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • : 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