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...they settled down in a 14-room duplex. Shriver's energetic involvement in local affairs, most notably as president of the Chicago board of education for five years, prompted some pols to tout him as a promising candidate for the 1964 Illinois gubernatorial race. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, however, dashed Shriver's hopes when he let it be known that he was supporting the Democratic incumbent, Otto Kerner. It was the first of Shriver's several disappointing attempts to run for elective office...
...Texas and Matthew Troy Jr. of New York, who said loudly that they could not vote for the ticket if Eagleton stayed on it. Few took the issue as lightly as Julian Bond of Georgia: "At least we know ours had treatment. What about theirs?" Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was compassionate. "All of us are sick sometimes," he said. "Many people become seriously ill, but they come back and carry on their activities very successfully and capably." The underlying, widespread worry was whether Eagleton would be equal to the strain if he should succeed to the presidency. Portland Lawyer Robert...
McGovern's mood was only somewhat brightened when Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley halfheartedly announced that he would "support every candidate on the Democratic ticket, federal, state and local." Not once did Daley mention McGovern's name. Since Illinois might be crucial to a Democratic victory in November, the question remained whether Daley would exert his still considerable power in behalf of the national ticket or merely concentrate on getting local and state candidates elected. Asked whether he blamed McGovern for his exclusion from the convention, Daley replied with laughter: "What do you think...
McGovern immediately telephoned Daley to thank him for his "magnanimous move." With that, Daley invited the candidate to come to Chicago for a conference-an invitation that had the quality of a summons. That meeting could at least begin negotiations for a possible bargain in which Daley might guarantee his support for McGovern in exchange for McGovern's endorsement of local Daley candidates...
...knows what's going on and I don't.' Then I started to listen to the speakers, but when I looked around not another soul was listening." A McGovern sup porter, she says of the vote that ousted the Illinois delegation headed by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley: "I couldn't understand why anyone would vote for Daley. But someone explained to me that there's a lot of party structure left...