[frank ballenger]

Plus Mayor Daley was a vile anti-semite which would fit in perfectly with today. There are scenes on such documentaries as one on PBS that clearly show him cupping his hands and heckling the speaker Abraham Ribicoff at the Dem Nat Convention with shouted dirty names against Jews.

Ribicoff was a former S Senator and confidant of John F. Kennedy, serving in his cabinet. He represented the Eastern side of the Dem Party, not to be confused with the anti-black dixiecrats and Daley’s machine in Chicago.

[Publius]

I should note that Mayor Daley was a fervent dove on the issue of Vietnam. Once LBJ committed to the war, he fell in line, but at the beginning he had his doubts.

He said to LBJ, "I wish to God at least one of those Harvard eggheads you inherited from Kennedy had run for dogcatcher."