http://chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/warren/ James Warren writes in the Chicago Tribune that alleged spy Robert Hanssen gave the KGB a diskette on which in addition to the usual spy stuff, he discussed "how the Soviet Union could benefit from a thorough study of the period of Chicago's history when the city was governed by Mayor Richard J. Daley."
Warren quotes talking head Michael Beschloss, presidential historian and Chicago native: "In Chicago there was a degree of organization and effectiveness and decorum [?] under Daley that the Soviets could only have dreamt of.
However, one does find in the case of Richard Nixon and his book, "Six Crises," he talks of the Soviets with a certain respect, since a leader could get something done, which was interesting for an old anti-communist like Nixon. There was an underlying envy. Nixon said that Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev reminded him of Mayor Daley in that anything he wanted done, he got done. But he did say those things during a time, in 1973 and 1974, when he was feeling most beleaguered. When he sent an order to the bureaucracy, he felt that Democrats foiled it."