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...defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, "voted against the Democrats because of the image that President Johnson portrays...
...easily run for either governor or senator in 1968. He probably would not challenge Senator Everett M. Dirksen, but if Dirksen declines to run for medical reasons, he might be tempted to seek that seat. More likely he will try for governor, his father's old office. Governor Otto Kerner would like a third term but the party might junk him in deference to Stevenson if Stevenson demonstrates vote-getting power...
...only Cicero (TIME, Sept. 2) as King had planned to do before Chicago leaders met his demands. Some members voiced hopes for violence that would tarnish King's philosophy of nonviolence. In anticipation of "the tumult, riot or mob disorder" that might result from the march. Governor Otto Kerner at week's end activated some 2,000 National Guardsmen for duty in Cicero...
Open City. Ogilvie, together with Cicero officials, appealed to Governor Otto Kerner for National Guard troops to preserve order during the march. Said Cicero Town Attorney Christy Berkos: "The probability of danger and destruction to human life and property now has become a certainty." Kerner agreed, and prepared to call out the Guard. Major General Francis Kane, Guard commander, grimly made plans to arm his men with tear gas, bayonets and machine guns. "If anyone fires on my men," warned Kane, "my men will fire back, and the same goes if anyone fires at the marchers...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). A special multiguest edition from the 1966 Governors' Conference in Los Angeles. Governors being interviewed: California's Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, Colorado's John A. Love, Illinois' Otto Kerner, Maine's John H. Reed, Pennsylvania's William Scranton, and Texas' John Connally...