Griffin’s Reviews > Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago > Status Update

"Clergymen trying to calm the situation were beaten. Some people were tossed into the park's lagoon, including a man who was going home on a bike. Police beat people many blocks from the park, invaded a couple of homes, sprayed Mace into the shocked faces of residents who leaned out of their windows to look, and proved with their cries of 'kill the motherfuckers' that the Yippies had no copyright on gutter language."

"In March 1970, the committeemen met for the purpose of reelecting Daley chairman...One of them recited, 'R, you're rare; I, you're important; C, you're courageous; H, you're heavenly; A, you're able; R, you're renowned; D, you're Democratic; J, is for your being a joy to know; D, you're diligent; A, you're adorable; L, you're loyal; E, you're energetic; and Y, you're youthful.'"

"'Don't believe everything you hear about me and the, uh, Mafia,' says Federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz."