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First Carter named as Defense Secretary Harold Brown, president of the California Institute of Technology, who headed weapons research at the Pentagon in the McNamara years. In his final session, after a quick trip to Chicago for the funeral of Mayor Richard Daley, Carter named three more old hands. To run Health, Education and Welfare, Carter recruited Joseph Califano, Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy chief. To head the energy agency that he hopes to expand into a Cabinet department, Carter chose his house Republican, James Schlesinger, whose resume is getting to be as lengthy as Elliot Richardson...
...Mayor Daley: Actually, I was always trying to be worthy of Chicago. I lived all my life in the same neighborhood-Bridgeport. I never wanted to live anywhere else. I wanted to make life better for my neighbors, and their neighbors. To build a city we could all be proud...
...Richard Daley worked very hard at that task. Consider his last day, as he made the rounds of what he deemed the greatest city on earth...
Still, even Daley's foes figure that there are several hurrahs left for the mayor. Republican Governor-elect James Thompson, who as U.S. Attorney convicted scores of Cook County Democrats and Republicans for political corruption, likened Daley to "a wounded old lion," bloodied but still dangerous. Indeed, Thompson has promised to "work closely" with Hizzoner...
...Daley machine's Young Turks are urging the mayor to broaden his appeal by bringing into his inner circle popular downstate Democrats like Alan Dixon, who was elected secretary of state with 66% of the vote. Daley may not take this advice; in 21 years as mayor, he has relied almost exclusively on his own instincts. After all, observed a young Chicago alderman, "Daley is the organization." But the mayor fully realizes that times are changing, and as he left for Florida, his mind was clearly on the future. Said he: "You never look back. Tomorrow is a better...