Richard J. Daley Quotes
You try it!
Richard Joseph Daley, 1902-1976, Mayor of Chicago (Democrat), To a reporter who suggested that His Honor feared dismantling of the Chicago Democratic organization, Quoted in The Chicago Tribune, November 14, 1968
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The general had reviewed the 9 objectives that the President had given him for the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq and had told Mr. Bush that he could not accomplish 4—the most important ones.
Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953 until his death. He has been called "the last of the big city bosses" who controlled and mobilized American cities. Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish-American South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport, where he lived his entire life. He was the patriarch of the Daley family, whose members include Richard M. Daley, another former mayor of Chicago; William M. Daley, a former United States Secretary of Commerce; John P. Daley, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and Patrick Daley Thompson, an alderman of the Chicago City Council.
