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Like Arvey, Daley must line up a Democratic ticket strong enough to capture the Governor's chair, carry the state for the President, and run at least a respectable senatorial race against a formidable Republican incumbent-in this case, patriarchal Everett McKinley Dirksen. Also like Arvey, who steered Stevenson instead of the less manageable Douglas toward the Statehouse, Daley is believed to be leaning toward young Stevenson for the governorship despite his reputation as an independent-minded politician. Much as he would like an agreeable team man in Springfield, Daley would like a winner even more...
...Kennedy, he kept a room in Chicago's Drake Hotel, thus meeting the legal residency requirements. In recent years, he has shown enough interest in the Governor's chair to irritate both Kerner and Daley. Nonetheless, Daley and his Democratic machine may urge Shriver to challenge Dirksen in the hope that his national image-and Kennedy finances -will be enough to defeat the ailing 72-year-old Senate minority leader...
...Dienbienphu. During the week the President spoke, in person or by phone, with at least 100 Senators and Representatives. There was a two-hour breakfast meeting at the White House for congressional leaders. In a concentrated effort to line up bipartisan support, Johnson summoned Republican Leaders Everett Dirksen and Gerald Ford to a lengthy White House briefing and dispatched an aide to former President Eisenhower's winter home in Indian Wells, Calif. Diplomatic and military experts such as General Matthew Ridgway, Henry Cabot Lodge and Maxwell Taylor were asked for advice...
...break the impasse, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen conferred with Attorney General Ramsey Clark on a possible compromise measure. Before they could even produce one, Southern Democrats swore they would talk it to death, and Northern liberals began speaking darkly of a "cave...
While hardly major, such mortifications are helping to cloud Percy's chances of being Illinois' favorite-son candidate at next summer's G.O.P. Convention. Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader, has indicated that he will not seek the role since he intends to head the platform committee. Now some downstate delegates, perhaps as many as 20 out of the total of 58, are threatening to ignore Percy and vote for Nixon or Reagan from the outset. Even so, Percy last week accepted the printing industry's Benjamin Franklin Award citing him as "a man of action...