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Bill Daley

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“Absolutely. And I think there will be either a At some point, either in three, I personally do not believe he runs again, but I feel strong in that. The next president, I think, will be have to be very different and will have to bring a calmness to the country and a sort of we can all move. I'm not saying that. But no country can stay at this level of sort of craziness. For very long. And I think the next president, whoever he or she would be, will have a very different tone.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“White House or the day before I was even sworn in, Gabby Gifford was was shot at and wounded and other people were killed that day. So this nastiness and the crassness that you see in politics, maybe more reflective of our society and Donald Trump understood that maybe better than many. And his sort of outrageousness reflects reality TV or the politics of today. And he got that before anybody else maybe wanted to act on that. Do you think?”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think oftentimes people say, oh, our politics is so nasty and this is terrible. I think it may reflect our society more than we like to admit, and we like to think and they should be, our politicians, our leaders, our political leaders, our religious leaders, whatever should be better than the rest of us. But maybe he reflects more of us today, oftentimes the crassness and nastiness. I mean, this is a man who ran around saying that President Obama wasn't born in the US, and then he feigns being shocked at the nastiness that's going on in politics. So maybe this is a more difficult thing. Maybe he's more reflective in the sort of politics the world we're in, the nastiness, the crastiness, the violence. We saw the assassination attempt on Republican members two weeks ago. First day I was in at the”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Expectation from a president to be in that sort of setting. I've never seen anything like this in a business setting, much less a White House or any major organizations. Very reflective of somebody who ran a small business, basically, which is what it was, and ran it as a dictator. I mean, that's what he ran his real estate business. I'm very successful, made a lot of money, great, but making a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean you're smart.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, White House is reflect the person at the top and the chaos or perceived chaos or lack of competence, in my opinion, reflects more about Donald Trump than anything else. So it doesn't surprise me. They really do reflect the quality of the people, reflect the president, and I would say right now the people that are there except with a few exceptions pretty much are the sort of people that Donald Trump attracted in his business career and on his campaign and the chaos all starts at the top or the confusion or the it would be a very difficult place if you come from a different”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Stressful getting ready to go to church that morning. I said, I better go to church. And I didn't know if I should come in a pair of jeans like a Sunday. But I wore a coat and tie, and I think I'm the only one in the picture with a coat and tie on because I figured if my mother was alive and she saw me at the White House, not in a coat and tie, I'd be in deep trouble. But I figured one way or the other, this is an important day. Either we're going to get Osama bin Laden or this is going to be a very bad day for the president. So I better be prepared. But to watch his driving that process. Over those three months or so was really remarkable and culminating in probably one of the for me the highlight of my professional career.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was concerned because the president was spending so much time in the situation room. And as you know, when the president's there, everybody in the building knows he's there. So it would be hard that people were not wondering what's going on here because he's down there so much. But that day was just very, very...”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the first day I was at the White House when they did the presidential briefing, Leon Panetta was there, and I knew Leon Panetta for a long time. He was head of the CIA at that time. And I thought, this is nice of Leon to come on my first day here to brief the president. He was there to talk about this compound in Abadabad and how they had been watching it, and they thought there was a high value target. That was in January, you know, and that every couple of weeks we'd have another meeting led up to the decision by the president. What was remarkable about that was to watch the president's leadership and how he managed that, you know, and it came down to a gut decision on his part. And there was disagreement of whether it should be done or whether Osama bin Laden was really there. But he went through a long process. As a matter of fact, it got to the point where he was in the situation room so often, and we were keeping this obviously very secret.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Leadership on the Democratic side let the White House know like the next day that they were upset because I had had dinner with John Boehner before I had had dinner with them. And I was like, well, you know, this is crazy.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so in the Times, Bill Clinton, one of the stark differences I saw when I got, when I was with Bill Clinton in the 90s, you know, it wasn't like everybody held hands and loved each other. They did impeach them, the Republicans. But the nastiness and the tenor, the tone in Washington ten years later when I came back with President Obama was shocking to me how mean, nasty, you know, it was on both sides. You couldn't be seen with a Republican if you were a Democrat or there were questions, what are you doing with that person? I had dinner with John Boehner the first week I was there because I knew John Boehner and I kind of enjoyed his company to frankly. He had a couple of glasses of wine. He'd walk out every 10 minutes to have a cigarette.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Had to manage that, understood the world because he used to do trade missions and he had companies that wanted to sell their goods around the world. And so he and he spent a long time sort of preparing for that presidential race. I think President Obama obviously short Senate career made the decision, beat one of the great establishment sort of candidates, Hillary Clinton in 08, and pulled off an unbelievable upset. But different also in their style, Bill Clinton was very much in your face sort of personal retail, as you say. Barack Obama was one of the smartest people I've met. Was viewed sort of in many ways his ability to speak and move a crowd and move the sort of political system was probably unparalleled of any of the people other than maybe Jack Kennedy back in 1960.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very different personalities. Donald Trump's election fine people said it could never happen. But he came over in a very short period of entire system with all sorts of challenges that nobody else has ever had, obviously starting first with his race. So his political talent at seeing the opportunity and the timing, obviously with your guidance, The opportunity that was presented at that period was and then take the risk of doing it was an unbelievable decision. Bill Clinton's, he was much more the retail sort of politician on the ground, hugging people, loving people over a long period. He was governor elected in 1978. So he had a very long career before he actually ran for president in 92. But they came from different systems. And that affected them in real ways.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it makes it hard for us to have the economic growth that we want, just as if you limit immigration, it's going to slow down the growth opportunities. I believe the same thing about trade. But I think there is a strong consensus on both parties to stay away from trade. And that will make it difficult to have 4% growth or 3% growth in the U.S. Now, I did see that President Trump's representatives are talking about trying to reestablish a TPP in a different way. And again, I look at the President Obama would not do something, in my opinion, that would crater opportunities for middle class and lower class, his whole career was about, and he felt was about trying to help those people. And I think he saw the benefit of TPP long-term, albeit very difficult political.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look at, I think you can improve NAFTA. Can you bring back all those, quote, jobs that supposedly went overseas? Absolutely not. It's ridiculous. Probably the vast majority of them at this stage are because of technology. And because there's a middle class in those countries that manufacturers that want to be closer to the sale of those things, I think it's going to be a long period before you see an aggressiveness around trade or a new trade agenda by a president and by the political standards. And”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. Now, there's a lot of other barriers in that we weren't aggressive enough on, to be frank with you. I remember when I was commerce I went to Japan and I think they told me there was one Cadillac in all of Japan. But GM then was not making right sided wheels. Drivers in Japan sit on the right side. GM wasn't making them. So they were trying to sell cars that nobody was going to buy. But we underestimated, and we're an aggressive enough at the other barriers other than tariffs in these countries that kept U.S. products out.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is the cause in many people's minds of all of this wage disparity, income inequality, and that's just not true. And in this world we're in, global world we're in, that's not going to change. Everybody can't just be out for themselves. And especially a country that believes in openness, open trade, our economy grew over those years in the 20th century by being open to with low tariffs for goods to come into the United States, and that helped our economy, helped it grow, welcoming people from around the world, helped our growth of ourselves.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it was the right thing to do at the time, absolutely. The problem is it has not been, it was not updated over the 25 years. And Congress, Democrat and Republican didn't take actions over those periods to address the problems of the diminution and manufacturing, the wage stagnation that was going on in the country, the enormous wealth that was being created. So that NAFTA and trade”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then you had the boom in the 90s, and I was Commerce Secretary then in the late 90s, and that enormous boom globally boomed globally of explosion of technology and the opening of countries like China and others over a very short period to being part of a global economy, again pushing down wages, pushing down. But it was well motivated. I don't think, especially as a Democrat, we would sign on board to keeping much of the world in poverty and not giving them a chance to have a middle class. The problem is when you give other parts of the world a chance at creating a middle class, that gets lost somewhere and that affects other places. And we were the economy of the world. So if there was going to be an impact on other parts of the world growing, we would suffer in many ways. And we did.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“in the US very developed nation doing a trade agreement that was just too much disparity between the two. It was the first time I'd ever been done. So there were a lot of issues around it. We underestimated the impact on jobs. At the same time, you had technology changing jobs and the ability for a company to put a plant anywhere in the world and build it where in the past that was very difficult to do. So all of this kind of came together and who got squeezed at that was small town America and Around Illinois. And”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, again, this is 25 years almost. So the world was very different. Bill Clinton, who I believe really felt for the average working person and understood the sort of needs of people, believed it was a big part of getting the U.S. economy moving in the 90s. And NAFTA was a piece of that. And it was also a piece to get our North America together, Canada, Mexico, and try to be one block in many ways. So he was well motivated. My role was to try to help pass it through Congress, but to Clinton, it was an integral part of the economic revival. And seeing globalization happen. Now, maybe what we misjudged was you had a third world nation, basically, Mexico at the time.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was way out in front of it, and I said, Well, Bernie, I'll talk to him, but I don't think this is going to go anywhere. So I called him and Rich was like, I forget it. He said, no. He said, this is ridiculous. I don't know what they're all talking about it for. And so Rich felt strongly on a lot of the issues that One would not think, oh, Mayor Daly's kid and somebody grew up where he grew up wouldn't be. The other thing was.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Barney Frank called me one day and Barney Frank, gay congressman, great guy, said, can you do me a favor? I said, what? He said, can you talk to Rich about not being so strong about gay marriage? I said. He said, you know, this is causing us problems with a lot of congressional campaigns because it was still very early on in the whole discussion. He was out in front.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My dad did those things probably more because they were smart politics to do. Even though, you know, he had enormous empathy for people who were in trouble. I remember in our neighborhood, we had a lot of guys who went to prison, people had alcohol problems, all that. He was never judgmental about that. And enriched in a different and different issues around, as you said, gay rights and issues like that where people wouldn't expect Daly's kid. To tell you a funny story in 2004, when Gavin Newsen, the mayor of San Francisco, was giving marriage license to people of the same sex to marry, it became a very big issue in the presidential campaign of Carrie, and it was a big issue in the congressional campaign.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I don't know what he was doing, but he said called whoever the deputy mayor was at the time and tell him about this pothole. And I'm like a kid in high school. Call deputy mayor on a car phone. They had a phone in a car, not a cell phone, obviously, and said we just hit a big pothole on Ashland Avenue. thinks somebody ought to get out here and fix it. So they were totally focused on and understood the city and the yin and yang of the different neighborhoods, the feel in the neighborhoods, new people. And so those two things were very similar. Difference was, obviously, my dad had the political organization to depend on and came up through that. Rich came in a different way. And the politics of it for Rich, he wasn't burdened by the old system. Matter of fact, he went around that old system, as we talked about earlier.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Second of all, they really knew the city. I mean, Rich knew the neighborhoods, knew the blocks. He was like my dad. You'd ride down if you were in the car with him, they'd be writing down a pothole. I remember one day my dad were going down Ashland Avenue, and I'm like in high school. And we hit a big pothole. It was in this limousine.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Statewide or what was going on nationally, Rich didn't, you know, he really didn't care who was president or whatever. And as long as he was on fairly good terms with them, it wasn't as though he focused on that in any way, shape, or form, or being in the Senate or running for governor, God forbid, something like meaningless job like that compared to the mayor of Chicago.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do a better job because they were never about the next job they were going to go for. And so I really believe that gave them an enormous ability to make decisions what was best for the city and not worry about the political career of where they may go next. Number one. Number two.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They were very similar in two ways. One, that's all they wanted to be. I remember when I became Secretary of Commerce, I thought it was a pretty important job. Rich was like, why are you going there? Why are you going to do that? Chief is asked the president. So that's all they wanted to be. And that helped them.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was very frightened of that race getting back into what at the end of the 83 race it became very race oriented. And then the politics in Chicago, as you know, during that period from 83 to through Harold's death until the election in 89 was all about race. And you really want to be part of it. But Rich had done a state's attorney in 84 and 88 had gotten overwhelming support from the African American community and the white community so that the expectation after he helped elect Harold in some people's mind was never fulfilled because he got even stronger as it went on. And he very much stayed out of politics with state's attorney. I had a good office, a good reputation, honesty and competent people. And that set him up with the African American vote, even though he didn't get much in 89.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With him Patrick Also, not what you would want to repeat, but Oh, yeah. They figured they being the sort of white political characters, Byrne and the rest of them figured Rich was finished. He couldn't get re-elected. The white voters would hold against him. Black voters would hold against them for running against Harold Washington. A guy jumped them in the toy store and he's rolling around on the floor. Now he's the state's attorney at the time. He had no bodyguards. He had his kids yelling at him. Hit him, Dad. Rich is like 40, 35, you're 40 years old rolling around a toy store on Holson Street and some goofball.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the only way you could, quite frankly, in a political way, the only way you could win was to push her way down and you had to do that by going very white against her and to try to consolidate the white vote versus Harold, who obviously was overwhelmingly popular in the African-American community. And Rich, we knew right there that was the end of the campaign. And he then, because he tried to stay above everything, and then he began to drop rather quickly. After that,”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They did it. And all of a sudden, he runs. And we fell pretty early on. Rich was strong. I do remember though a poll in 1982, and Rich hated polls, hated to talk about them, as you know. So the pollster was there, and Rich was beating Jane Byrne by enormous amount. And basically the pollsters said he can't lose this. I can't say what Rich said to the guy and got up and left and never came back. It's a podcast. You can say whatever you want. Never came back to a polling meeting ever. But you could feel it turn when Byrne got stronger. She went heavy on the race. And I remember about two weeks out we had a poll come back.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we didn't see Harold had been pretty clear saying he wouldn't run. And it told Rich that privately. But he said, I put out these conditions. I got to register 200,000 people. They'll never make it house. They'll never do it. Telling everybody.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In an election and Reagan indirectly, Reagan won the county in a landslide, won the election in a landslide. Rich won barely, and then went on to be State's Attorney for eight years until he ran for mayor. Had they wrapped their arms around him? This was the big mistake they made. Had they endorsed him and all at least gone through the motions of being for him, there's no way Rich Daley would have beat Bernie Carey in the general election.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. And she just, Jane Burn didn't intimate. She told Carter she was for him. And when the Carter people told me that, I said, don't worry about it. She's not going to be with you. Forget it. She will be with Kennedy. She was. But it became a proxy both sides. It was us and Carter versus Kennedy and Vyrne and the Republican candidate. It was crazy. It was like the entire organization that my dad ran for all those years was against his son in order to help a Republican”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So Rich walked into slate making and announced he was running for Stakes Attorney, which shocked everybody because nobody else. Then the powers that be, Jane Byrne and the other committeemen who were going to try to stop Rich, then ran out and got Eddie Burke, Rich used to go to school with him and law school. With your brother Rich. Yeah, with my brother Rich. And so they slated him. Rich beat him in the primary and then beat Bernie Carey by $16,000 in the ring. But this is where I wanted to go with.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The expectation was he was going to run against this buddy Finley guy because there were a bunch of passionate jobs there. And Rich had no interest in that. And really, so he kept it very quiet that he was going to run for State's attorney. There was slate making, and there was a very popular, well-liked Republican state's attorney at the time who had been there for quite a long time”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you walked But just told my mother who was an integral part of my father's politics from the very beginning and his campaigns had a very good sense about politics.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“County official, my dad made him a county official. And so Rich called the meeting the next day of the captains, and they elected Rich and Buddy Fiddling moved out of the ward and moved to the suburbs. So suburbs, yes. Yeah, I remember Finley.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, she had learned a few things. And within a day of his burial, somebody walked into him and said, I just got a call from an precinct captain and they're trying to put this together for Buddy Finlay to replace, who was a member of the”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My dad died on a Monday and he was buried on a Wednesday and Rich said, well, you know, we'll wait till Monday to have a committee men's meeting. I mean, a preaching kept his meeting to elect a new committeeman. And my mother said, Rich, have it right away. Don't delay. And he was like, no, Ma, you know, everybody's getting over.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, kind of Rich and my brother John were very local, and I said, well, and I always had the interest in Washington and national politics. And so I helped Jimmy Carter and I was kind of the link from my dad to the Carter campaign in 76. And the people who ran it. And then off in 80, 80, I ran Richard's campaign for state's attorney. So it didn't get that heavily involved in the president.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he really, they were all set to announce big plans to knock it down and put a whole high rise up right on Michigan and Randolph. And someplace, somebody, a young reporter asked her about it and she thought that was a terrible idea and it shouldn't happen. And I did killed it. That was the end of it and it survived and it's a beautiful. Now it's a Chicago cultural.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She shot her all the time and she went in. They had in those days they had a stand of books for sale and saw it and went right to the manager, the manager of the store and said, this is outrageous, this is terrible. Obviously he yanked the book off the, and that helped Mike Greco because it was great. It added to the whole thing of it, probably helped them with the sales and he appreciated that. She knew she would, but... In her mind and in her life that was the right thing to do. She was defending her husband.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you know, we learned a lot of that from my dad who used to, he didn't hold a grudge. He was tough and he had a lot of battles in his life, political, but he didn't hold the grudge and he understood the, you know, as I said, he had a lot of difficult times with the media. But he understood they had a role, as did my mother. And years later, when Raiko was pretty friendly to my brother Rich as he was running, my mother and he, I remember at Rich's the party the night he got sworn in as mayor there was Mike Reiko dancing with his wife and my mama's talking to him. I'm like, holy, the world has really changed.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or something, right? And we took a lot of heat for that. Brother Rich got stopped for going through a stop sign. I was on the front page of all the papers. So suddenly you felt the difference in the newer sort of media world we were in. So there was a lot of sort of, you better just watch what you do.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So to identify him in history and certain. And then you had the convention four months later where nobody was killed at the Republican convention the same year in Miami. Six people were killed in adjacent riots in Liberty City in Miami. So that was a pretty bad year for him, very difficult year in many ways, even though he went on to win two more elections.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And cried because it was just devastating if you saw what was going on in the west side and they couldn't stop it. Obviously his orders shoot to kill. You know, you can interpret it different ways. The truth is the violence did slow down after that, his attitude was if somebody's thrown a mole tough cocktail in a building where somebody's living in it, that's a potential murderer and that person should.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It really it was unbelievably difficult because 68 we had a very difficult period for the country. I think one of the worst years in the history of the country. And in Chicago, you had in April, the Martin Luther King assassination and then the riots, where the entire West Side, quite frankly in Chicago, most of the West Side didn't recover for another 40 years, almost 35 years. And he couldn't believe that such damage was done to the city to the point where they had to call in the federal troops the last time federal troops were called into domestic situation and Congress then enacted law. It can never happen again. But it was really tough. It was tough to see the city burning the police. Don't tell me he went up.”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And in Chicago was the first northern city And the Alderman who cast it was from an all white, rather ethnic ward on the south side, and had to not run again, and they made him a judge because he took a tough, really the toughest vote you could take in those days. As I said, it was the first northern city with an open housing. So in 68, when”
2017-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 158 - Bill Daley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source