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...political aristocrats, OEO Boss Sargent Shriver and Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, were interested in the Governor's chair that Democrat Otto Kerner is relinquishing this year. Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72. And both were anathema to Daley's party regulars...
...Shriver had often irritated local Democrats by floating the rumor that he was available for the Illinois posts; many machine loyalists regarded him as a carpetbagger whose only tie to Illinois was the room he maintained in Chicago's Drake Hotel. Adlai III also rankled the Daley regulars, especially when he appeared before their council of slatemakers and touted himself as the "strongest" candidate for Governor. He angered the committee further when he said that he might not be able to support the President's war policies in every detail. "I was disgusted," said one member...
...Cook County Political Boss Jake Arvey forged a winning ticket with Adlai Stevenson for Governor and Paul Douglas for the U.S. Senate. Today the political boss is, of course, Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, and the most likely candidates are State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III and Sargent Shriver, head of the federal War on Poverty...
...Shriver, whose biggest booster for elective office in Illinois has so far been himself, has also been mentioned as a possibility for Governor. When Shriver moved to Washington in 1961 to work for Brother-in-Law John F. 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...
...Rural Legal Assistance agency would tackle the problem, right down to the precise location of its farm-town offices. Many attorney friends of the poor had opened store-front law offices in city slums; what Lorenz proposed was the country's first statewide rural legal-aid bureau. Impressed, Shriver investigated and pondered for two months, then agreed to provide funds for a $1,276,000 first-year budget...