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With a four-layer cake in his outer office, Chicago's Boss-Mayor Richard J. Daley celebrated his 70th birthday. To friends and newsmen he dispensed spiritual advice: "We should love thy neighbor and honor thy father and thy mother and all senior citizens." And physical: "Exercise, you know, is responsible for my good health. You should be in my basement-jumping rope, punching the bag, lifting weights. The human body will disintegrate if you don't use it." The mayor's well-rounded human body seems in no such danger, whatever may be happening...
...campus, some unexpected opposition to presidential policy developed. Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, saying he had supported Nixon and past Presidents on the war, and that "I think we should stand by our President," nevertheless said he had changed his mind. "I don't think any President has the right, without approval of Congress, to carry on a war-and we've been in a war for ten years." Nine of Henry Kissinger's former staff members wrote to him declaring their admiration for much of what he has done in the past but deploring...
...Chicago, Mike Neigoff, a spokesman for Mayor Daley, said Friday that "no one has ever quoted Mayor Daley saying whom he supports or doesn't support. At the convention, the Illinois delegation will caucus and hear from anyone who wants to speak to them and then determine who to support." This isn't saying much but it's far from proclaiming McGovern's unacceptability...
...COURSE, the experience of the Muskie campaign shows that these party leaders cannot always produce votes to go with their endorsements, and no one is claiming that neutral leaders like Daley and Meany will not support McGovern at the convention. The point is that McGovern is certainly not anathema to party leaders, as some columnists claim...
Maybe the inside dopesters have contacts the rest of us don't. Maybe they know more about what Mayor Daley is thinking than we do. No one can judge that. What we all can judge is their record: the prediction of a centrist "Real Majority," the dismissal of McGovern as "not a serious candidate," and the claim that Muskie was unstoppable as long as he didn't move too far left. Looking at these things, and at the evidence piling up against their latest reports of McGovern's unacceptability to Democratic regulars, one begins to suspect that the knowledgeable columnists...