As related by David Rieff, "Bring The Troops Home, " in the latest TNR, devoted to Iraq, Mayor Richard Daley to LBJ during the Democratic National Convention in '68. Daley tells LBJ it is time to withdraw once and for all. "How am I to do this?" To which Daley is said to have replied, "You put the fucking troops on the fucking planes and you get them out of there!"
-- Michael Pugliese