Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Paul Duke says attention focused on Illinois, where there was a Presidential primary and an important Congressional primary. Cokie Roberts to report.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Cokie Roberts does introduction to segment on Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) who was the only Republican incumbent to be challenged in a primary this season, though successful, the contest a lesson in how a primary campaign can make life more difficult in a general election, especially for a Republican in a Democratic state. (Illinois Primary)
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Chicago, Illinois, St. Patrick s Day Parade. Marchers wearing kilts playing bagpipes. Shots of marchers, spectators.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) wearing a green jacket and sash, kisses a woman spectator at the St. Pat s parade on the cheek, who informs him she is new to Illinois but is going to vote for him, shaking hands with other spectators
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Chicago, Illinois, St. Patrick s Day Parade, various marchers and unidentified local politicians. Includes a very brief shot Senator Paul Simon (D - Illinois) marching in the parade.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Chicago, Illinois, St. Patrick s Day Parade, Congressman Tom Corcoran (R - Illinois) marching, waving, green carnation in lapel, green necktie. Pan over Corcoran supporters, mostly children carrying large signs. Cut to Tom Corcoran (R - Illinois) giving thumbs up to spectators.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Charles Percy supporters, carrying signs, march on upper Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Cokie Roberts standing in heavy snow on Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois. She says that primary campaigns can be nasty, without partisan issues to deflect personal attacks. Fear that March charges can stick in November.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
DO NOT USE clip of a Tom Corcoran (R - Illinois) TV ad attacking Charles Percy. The ad features a newspaper photo of Percy shaking hands with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. Corcoran calling it an "embarrassment" to Reagan and charging Percy with trying to "give away Our Panama Canal".
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) at a committee meeting.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
DO NOT USE Still photos of Frank Church and William Fulbright.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) (The two who were defeated were the Senator from Arkansas and the Senator from Idaho) Illinois is quite different. We are a very internationally minded state. We have the largest council on foreign relations in the world. There are 20 nations that have banks right here in Chicago.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Illinois voter Dick Ulkowski of Chicago says He (Charles Percy) is more involved with things that are happening outside of the state of Illinois and outside of the country, and it s something that we don t like.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Illinois voter Bill Kuhn says, Perhaps there s some truth to the fact that when you become very closely embroiled in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee you lose sight of the local people that you are supposed to work for on a day to day basis.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) entering a building under State Trooper escort. Percy shaking hands with a group of older voters at a banquet of the Republican Party of Palos Township. Setting is relaxed, a blue-collar Legion Hall room. Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) at podium. I went finally to Everett Dirksen after a month or so and said, this seniority system just ought to be changed. There ought to be a better way than the seniority system. There s his (Everett s) picture and I can just hear Everett reply to me, Chuck, you re a young man, the longer you re here in the Senate, the more you ll appreciate the seniority system. You know, he s absolutely right.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Tom Corcoran (R - Illinois) addressing a banquet of GOPAC, very well-dressed guests. Everybody here knows, of the sharp differences between Chuck Percy and Tom Corcoran when it comes to the issues of prime interest to the Illinois State Rifle Association. Corcoran shaking hands with elderly women. Tom Corcoran speaks to voter, pan down to hand level, the man is holding a hunting rifle, the two shake hands over the barrel of the gun for a photographer.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Tom Corcoran (R - Illinois) You go issue after issue after issue and you will find Chuck Percy working and voting against the President of the United States. And you find most Republicans supporting the President.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
DO NOT USE Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) TV campaign ad shows Reagan giving a speech praising Percy s leadership.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Charles Percy (R - Illinois) shaking hands with elderly women voters. Percy and staffers viewing returns on TV screens in a restaurant bar, dancing with a woman to oldies song in front of a painted background of 50's Chevy station wagons, glad handing with people in the bar.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Cokie Roberts studio wraps up saying Democrats think Percy will be vulnerable to Democrat Congressman Paul Simon in November.