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Richard Joseph Daley war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Von 1955 bis zu seinem Tod war er Bürgermeister von Chicago. Mit 21 Amtsjahren prägte er nicht nur maßgeblich die Politik der Großstadt, sondern spielte auch in der Demokratischen Partei eine bedeutende Rolle, etwa bei der Unterstützung der Präsidentschaftskandidaturen von John F. Kennedy 1960, Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 und Hubert H. Humphrey 1968. Daley wurde überregional bekannt, als er beim demokratischen Nominierungsparteitag in Chicago Ende August 1968 die Polizei gegen Anti-Kriegsdemonstranten einsetzte. Die Ordnungskräfte gingen dabei besonders hart gegen die Protestierenden vor, was auch über die Grenzen der USA hohe Beachtung fand.

Er ist Vater des ehemaligen Bürgermeisters Richard M. Daley und des ehemaligen US-Handelsministers und vormaligen Stabschefs des Weißen Hauses William M. Daley.

Nach ihm wurde das Richard J. Daley Center benannt, ein 197 Meter hoher Wolkenkratzer, der von 1965 bis 1969 das höchste Gebäude der Stadt Chicago war. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Mai 1902 – 20. Dezember 1976
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“I have conferred with the superintendent of police this morning and I gave him instructions that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand.”

[David Farber, Chicago '68, University of Chicago Press, 1994, ISBN 0226238016, pg 145(b)</small>, pg 249<small>(a)]
Stated one week following the April 1968 Chicago riots to the people of Chicago because of his dissatisfaction with the minimum use of force employed by Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk in dealing with rioters.

“Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. One betrayed him, one denied him and one doubted him.”

The Last Good Campaign, 2008-10-12, Thurston Clarke, 2008, June, Vanity Fair Online http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/06/rfk_excerpt200806?currentPage=4,
Said when asked if he thought Robert F. Kennedy could win the Democratic nomination for President in 1968, comparing Kennedy to Judas Iscariot.

“The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”

[A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement, Cary D., Rostow, Robert D. Davis, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0789023962, 18]
Said during the civil disorders associated with the Democratic National Convention in 1968.

“I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.”

[Cohen, Adam, Elizabeth Taylor, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation, Back Bay Books, 2001, ISBN 0-3168-3489-0]

“If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?”

The Man Who Made Chicago Work, 2008-10-12, Staff Reporter, 1977, January, Time Magazine Online http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947807-2,00.html,
Response to criticism for steering millions of dollars in city insurance to an agency where his son worked.

“They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.”

[William, Schmidt, Willaim E. Schmidt, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DD1038F932A15751C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all#, Chicago Journal; Syntax Is a Loser in Mayoral Race, The New York Times, February 2, 1989, 2008-10-12]
A statement he once made in response to criticisms, alluding that he treated criticism on par with vilification and crucifixion.

“Good government is good politics and politics is good government.”

[The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, Paul Michael Green, Melvin G. Holli, Southern Illinois University Press, 1995, 144, ISBN 0809319616]
An ofttimes repeated maxim of Daley's to describe his view on the inseparability of politics and government.

“Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy mother-fucker, go home.”

[David Farber, Chicago '68, University of Chicago Press, 1994, ISBN 0226238016, pg 145(b)</small>, pg 249<small>(a)]
Said to Senator Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut when the Senator challenged Daley's use of force during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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