Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first press conference after the battle of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was gruff and to the point. "Gentlemen," he said last week, thrusting his jaw out for angry emphasis, "get this thing straight for once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create dis order. The policeman is there to pre serve disorder...
...course, a verbal slip by a man famous for his bouts with the lan guage. Yet it said perhaps more than the mayor intended. Despite a 77-page official "white paper" and a blanket endorsement of his police by Daley him self, city authorities had yet to convince thousands who were there that the Chicago cops had been anything less than brutal to demonstrators, news men and almost anyone else who got in their way during the four days of the Democratic Convention...
Like the city's official accounting, Daley's 25-minute, press-conference defense bore only slight resemblance to the events. Sometimes the mayor just got the facts wrong. He told reporters, for example, that they "forgot entirely that the confrontation was not created by police. The confrontation was created by people who charged police." There was no such charge by demonstrators during the most notorious confrontation in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At other times, the mayor magnified incidents to bolster his case. What would they do, he asked reporters, if someone tried to blind...
...Daley left out entirely anything that tended to discredit his police. While conceding reluctantly that police work, like any other human enterprise, can be improved, he stubbornly maintained that the police operations had been nothing short of "magnificent...
Nothing in recent memory has quite so disturbed and transfixed the U.S. press as the street battles during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Mayor Daley and reporters have turned the confrontation into a sort of Punch and Judy morality show, and last week they were still pummeling away...