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...years as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, Samuel Harvey Shapiro was the man who came in the back door to see Governor Otto Kerner. So self-effacing was Shapiro that most voters knew him merely as a loyal Democratic minion from Kankakee-if they knew him at all. Last week the stocky, homely "Mr. Sam," 61, was sworn in as Governor of Illinois...
...automatically succeeded Kerner, who took a federal judgeship. In February, Chicago's Mayor Dick Daley, the state's chief Democratic potentate, picked Shapiro to run this fall in Kerner's place, and it seemed to many that the party was abandoning any real hope of keeping the governorship. But Shapiro seems determined to try. Although his inaugural was as modest as the man, Shapiro's first week in office reflected a quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state...
Meanwhile, a progressive-minded but basically impotent city government has issued a 44-page report on the April riot, calling for many of the programs suggested in the Kerner Report and emphasizing more local control of businesses in the ghetto. But the city government appears to be in a less powerful position than the interests that have always run Washington (Park and Shop and friends) through the Congressional committees...
...Even if this thing ends in violence (it is already confused and frustrated, and that combination often leads to violence), this is not a revolution, nor what it meant to be. Everything the Poor People want has already been proposed by the Johnson Administration, the Urban Coalition, or the Kerner Commission. The only thing really new is a guaranteed income, and SCLC only wants it for "those either too young, too old, or too handicapped to work...
...John V. Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, will speak on "The Urban Crisis and the Kerner Commission Report" at noon today in Sanders Theatre...