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Richard J. Daley opposed Vietnam War, historians say
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| Last Edited | COSDem Apr 20, 2005 04:00pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Richard J. Daley never lived down the ugly image of police officers clashing with anti-war demonstrators on the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. But he had more in common with protesters than anyone could have imagined.
Moved by the death in Vietnam of the Harvard-educated son of a Bridgeport neighbor and close friend, Daley had privately turned against the war more than a year before the infamous Chicago convention.
“He said, `What a waste. For what?’ ” recalled former Federal Communications Commission chairman and longtime Daley friend Newton Minnow.
“The irony of 1968 is that Daley was perceived as hard-line, but he agreed with the protesters. History ought to know that he was against the war long before some of the protestors.”
Acclaimed presidential historian and native Chicagoan Michael Bechloss added, “As early as 1966, Daley told President Lyndon Johnson in private that, politically, Vietnam was turning into a disaster. He told Johnson what his beloved father Mike Daley always told him. He said, `Mr. President, when you’ve got a losing hand, you fold your cards.’ ”
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