CHICAGO, July 21 (UPI) -- Earl Bush, who served as press secretary to Chicago's first Mayor Richard Daley, has died at the age of 90.
Bush will always be remembered for telling the press to print what his boss Richard J. Daley meant, not what he actually said, the Chicago Tribune reports.
During the 18 years he served Daley, Bush had to deal with the mayor's tendency toward malapropisms, the newspaper said. Bush once wrote a speech for Daley in which the mayor proclaimed, "We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement."
A former reporter who smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, Bush remained interested in politics long after he left the job of press secretary in 1973, the Tribune said.
When the son of his former boss ran for Cook County state's attorney, Bush worked on the campaign.
His granddaughter Sarah Karp said he died Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after suffering a series of strokes.
