Word: daleyisms
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...weeks before the election that they lost so badly, a number of Democrats were engaged in some curious carryings-on. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was up in Chicago huddled with Mayor Richard Daley. Jean Westwood, McGovernite head of the Democratic National Committee, was down in Alabama chatting with George Wallace. George Meany and Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson were corralling votes, not for Nov. 7, but for Dec. 9 -the date of the next national committee meeting. Many Democrats were much less concerned with the election -which they took to be a foregone, forlorn conclusion-than with maneuvering to come...
...will stay on to fight another day-within the established party apparatus. Time and again, party regulars who could not take McGovern have warmed up to some of his youthful supporters. If there was ever a chance for a collision, it was in Chicago when the McGovernites arrived. The Daley regulars had braced for the worst, only to be pleasantly shocked when many youngsters turned out to be eager to learn the political trade at the hands of proven, if not spotless, masters...
...Congressmen to be unseated was Chicago's independent-minded Democrat Abner Mikva, 46, the victim of redistricting, his own stand in favor of busing and his association with McGovern, whom he supported even before the Democratic convention. One of the earliest challengers to the organization of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Mikva had made his peace with the "boss." Mikva's Republican opponent, Sam Young, 49, a Chicago attorney active in local G.O.P. affairs, spoke out harshly against "the McGovern-Mikva brand of government," a gamble that paid off among the conservative voters along the North Shore. In winning. Young moved...
...report that blamed "police riots" for a share of the disorders surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Then the tall, tanned lawyer, now 50, quit his $100,000-a-year job at Montgomery Ward vowing to overturn both the G.O.P. organization downstate and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine in Cook County. After he had hiked in denims 1,197 miles across Illinois, talking up his giant-killer theme, Walker edged out Daley's candidate in the primaries. But once he began campaigning against Ogilvie, an able Governor whose main political misfortune was authorship...
...finally on War on Poverty chief R. Sergeant Shriver as his running mate, McGovern had implicitly made a choice to link his campaign with the Democratic Party of the 1960s. Another important Shriver selling point was that he came in a package deal with his old friend. Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago. But although McGovern had decided to sound like a Democrat and organize a classic Democratic Party constituency, he still had to decide what sorts of themes he would emphaisize...