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...fact is that verbal errors can have a devastating effect on those who hear them and on those who make them as well. Jimmy Carter never fully recovered from his reference to Polish lusts for the future in a mistranslated speech in 1977, nor was Chicago's Mayor Daley ever quite the same after assuring the public that "the policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder." Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, all made terrible gaffes, with Ford perhaps making the most unusual ("Whenever I can I always watch...
After spending time in Minneapolis, teaching at the University of Minnesota and serving as deputy mayor, Eidenberg accepted a vice-chancellory at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus in 1972. There he continued his political hobby, observing Mayor Richard J. Daley's machine first hand...
Eidenberg recalls the Chicago Circle Campus' tenth anniversary, when, as university representative, he served as Daley's escort. Making idle conversation with the mayor before Daley was to give a speech, Eidenberg mentioned that the college was considering building a law school. To his surprise, when Daley addressed the college officials, he painted a picture of a "wall-to-wall law school. It was pure Richard J. Daley Chicago Circle boosterism...
Within hours of the speech, a Cook County legislator called Eidenberg, saying he wanted to sponsor the bill to build the law school. "I was watching the machine operate at its level of maturity. All Daley had to do was express a preference, and others stepped up to the plate," Eidenberg says...
...present nominating process is a prime example of reforms that have not worked. The 1968 Democratic Convention, an embarrassing spectacle dominated by Chicago's jowly Mayor Richard Daley and his helmeted riot police, inspired the party's liberals to push through a series of antiboss rules requiring a more open process. The number of delegates elected in primaries increased from 40% to 75%, and rules governing state conventions were liberalized; the "unit rule," requiring all of a state's delegates to vote the same way, was abolished, and more seats were made available for women, young people...