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Landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport the next afternoon, Johnson found Dick Daley waiting for him, along with Illinois' Governor Otto Kerner, Democratic National Committeeman Jake Arvey, dozens of Democratic precinct workers - and little Cathy Baker. Daley and his boys were not about to let some kid beat them to the President. When Johnson stepped down from the plane, Daley's Democrats rumbled past Cathy, thundered eagerly up to offer Johnson their plump palms. The President shook hands with most of them, finally scooped up Cathy, collected a kiss for preventing the railroad strike...
Fighting City Hall. On election night, Scott conceded 31 hours after the polls closed, and Percy wound up with 615,686 votes to Scott's 383,462. In November, Percy will face Illinois' ineffectual Governor Otto Kerner, a cog in Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machinery. Said Percy: "We'll be running against the White House, the Governor's mansion and city hall."† But he felt a good deal of his own strength would come from his freedom to run for Governor as his own man. Said confident Chuck Percy after last week...
Illinois (26). A weak Democratic Governor, Otto Kerner, is up for reelection and figures to hurt the ticket. Racial tensions are plaguing Chicago Mayor Daley's Democratic machine. Kennedy won by a mere 8,800 votes in 1960, would probably lose the state to Goldwater today. If they convinced Illinois that they are not too liberal, Romney and Scranton would also have a chance...
...major on-the-scene victim of the N.A.A.C.P.'s broad-gauged anger was none other than Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, who has made a successful political career out of collecting Negro votes. Accompanied by Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, Daley spoke to the convention, admitted that the Chicago civil rights situation is not perfect, but certainly is "as good as any." When Daley insisted that "there are no ghettos in Chicago," there were murmurs of disbelief in the meeting hall...
...around Chicago. In scenes reminiscent of the Depression breadlines, Negroes queued up for four days to get 35 Ibs. of food per person. Jostling, weeping, the people shoved their pushcarts and shopping bags into the dispensing lines and hauled away 500 tons of food. In Springfield Governor Kerner, who had vowed never to sign a bill with a welfare ceiling, gulped down his promise, approved a compromise bill that henceforth will limit the amount of money given to any one welfare family...