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

—  Richard J. Daley

[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]

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