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...Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko...
...Daley caters to the downtown interests, ?? suburbanites and the Republicans. So why d?? he keep winning? One might argue that mo?? talks louder in politics than in most places ?? this is partly true. The downtown interest b?? couldn't work alone, but wedded to the mach?? they seem invincible...
Royko shows that there's a lot more to D?? than that. While machines were collapsing all over the country, Daley's was sticking together. Boss doesn't explain why this is so, but it suggests ?? lot of contributing factors. The most obvious ?? Daley's mastery of timing. When Chicago was hi?? with a police scandal, Daley was not at all relu??tant to fire his police commissioner and appoint?? blue-ribbon candidate, a nationally recognized e?? pert on criminology. This removed the police from his control and even improved the force. But?? saved Daley and the machine: better...
ANOTHER reason for the machine's succes?? Daley's ability to manipulate white fears. His famous shoot-to-kill order is one example of this. His criticisms of Martin Luther King (before his death, of course) are another. Moreover, Daley firmly believes in the American ethic of upward mobility. When a nun who did social work on the West Side visited Daley to tell him of the poverty she had seen, Daley, in a long-winded reply, pointed out to the nun that their "grandparents can?? here with nothing," The blacks, he said, "should lift themselves up by their bootstraps...
Royko said a few weeks ago in a TV interview that Daley represents the wave of the future, that cities want strong leadership of the sort that Daley has given Chicago. This seems doubtful, if for no other reason than that blacks, who are rebelling against the machine, are also becoming a majority in Chicago and most other big cities. Still Boss stands as a monument to what can be done through a clever mix of self-interest, hate, fear, good timing, clever PR and strong leadership. If Boss is still relevant in the 1980's, it will be because...