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...running scared about the Wallace thing," conceded COPE's Ken Germanson. In Indiana, Democratic State Chairman Gordon St. Angelo is so fearful that Wallace may win that he asked the other Democratic candidates to throw their support to one of their number in order to stop Wallace. Lindsay, Jackson and McGovern expressed interest, but neither Muskie nor Humphrey was ready to withdraw in favor of the other...
Muskie realized that his struggle was desperately uphill now (see box, page 27). His money was spread thin, and his two initial primaries had discouraged some potential donors. He was doubly hurt in the Florida fuss over revealing financial support. When McGovern, Lindsay and Humphrey voluntarily agreed to open their books, Muskie was criticized for holding back. When he promised to reveal his sources, it looked as though he had been forced into it-and some Republican donors will likely be embarrassed. Business leaders who like to hedge their bets by giving to the leading contenders in both parties...
...Sure, a lot of the men didn't care too much for Lindsay," DeLury said Tuesday. "But 97 per cent of these guys are high school graduates. They may hate the man, but they're going to vote where the bread and butter is. In terms of dollars and fringe benefits, Lindsay gave them more between '66 and '68 than anybody before him. Now Bob Wagner--and no one else, really--got down to it with the workers, but he wouldn't give them the benefits. Lindsay did. I put more people in the field for Lindsay than anyone else...
Since 1968, DeLury and Lindsay have been on relatively friendly terms, and DeLury is presently campaigning for Lindsay in his Presidential bid. Still, he has some biting words for the mayor, with whom he associates a major long-term crisis for sanitation workers. It was in 1966, the year Lindsay took office, that DeLury says the esteem of sanitationmen "vanished." "I don't know why," he said. "The first real corruption in the department surfaced then, but that was just the beginning." The incident between Lindsay and Quill, coupled with two serious scandals--one involving extortion and another...
...respect. Nobody can give respect--you gotta prove respect, get back in the public esteem. I still remember when the strike was called--half past four in the morning on February 4, 1968. Sure, I thought '68 could be negotiated, but they wouldn't give on just $25 more. Lindsay didn't know, nobody knew, what would happen when the sanitation workers went on strike. I don't really think anybody expected how effectively it would shut down the city...