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MIDWEST. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley resented the Carterites' standoffishness. Only last week Daley agreed "to redouble our efforts." He described Carter as a "great fella in spring training, but now that the league has started, he's in a slump." Pressed for his views on the Playboy interview, Daley dodged, boasting of a fish he had caught. What then did the fish think? Cracked Daley: "If he hadn't opened his mouth, he wouldn't have gotten caught...
Jack talks of Chicago's Mayor Daley and points out that until he got into town that morning he thought the Mayor was a good man. But as he got off the plane and picked up a newspaper he realized that Daley, in criticizing Cardinal Cody for his stand in favor of an anti-abortion amendment, was not committed to the right to life. "This is the most important decision since slavery," Jack, a lawyer says, comparing the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion to the infamous Dred Scott case in which a black slave was held...
...head upstairs to where Maddox is scheduled to address several midwestern delegations. The elevator fills up and an elderly man shoots me a quick "Hello young fella." I bait him. "Mr. Maddox, what would you have done if this was 1968 and there were demonstrators downstairs?" "I think Mayor Daley did the right thing," Lester Maddox says, emerging from the elevator to tell the crowd "regardless of where everyone else stands today, I'll still be Lester Maddox tomorrow...
...address, Carter will argue that only someone who has not been in Washington for most of his adult life?as Ford has?can provide the new ideas and fresh vision demanded by the times. Carter also plans to go this week to Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley is whumping up a mammoth torchlight parade to spark a drive aimed at capturing Illinois and its 26 electoral votes...
MIDWEST. Gerald Ford is stronger here, but he is no cinch on his own turf. Illinois is a tossup. Dick Daley's great Republican-grinding machine and Chicago's blacks are offset by conservative suburbanites and downstaters. Ohio is a toss-up too. So is Michigan, Ford's home state, where local pride may not be enough to overcome resentment over the recession. Bob Dole's Kansas seems as secure for Ford as Fritz Mondale's Minnesota seems safe for Carter. Ford also should carry Nebraska, but Iowa and the Dakotas are anybody's race. The President might score...