Mike Royko

Hi,

my name is Carol Register and the person that

I was assigned from my individual research assignment is Mike

Roy comb and I will be answering questions as if

he were interviewed during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Just a little bit of background about mike. He has a very unique sense of humor.

I think it's witty and dry and a lot of

fun to read and his works can be literally recognized

anywhere.

I can tell just by reading the first couple of

sentences of his columns that it's by mike and I

think that's really cool that he has a very distinctive

style of writing and it's just very fun to read.

His audiences were mostly people that supported the civil rights movements,

people that supported the arts and musics

and they're also supporters of de escalation of the war

and if not

total withdrawal of the war.

Common sense was honestly like a theme I could tell throughout his works.

It's just very

honest.

He writes honest columns and I think

that takes all the guts to do. And I just really enjoyed making this project.

The first question I will answer

is number two,

what are your opinions of the Republican Party nominee?

Richard M Nixon and his agenda?

I mean, I don't want him to win,

but I think he will because of the protestors

setting things on fire at the Democratic National Convention.

I could tell Nixon has a habit of calling

past presidents cheaters while he's sitting on his high horse

running his mouth to other politicians about how he could never be the problem.

It's America as a whole.

He thinks we've turned soft.

Does he not see the ongoing riots that thousands of cities are facing right now?

I think he needs to clean off his glasses and look at his agenda a little closer.

People want a hero.

And if that hero is not standing amidst fire and flames, they seem desirable.

If Nixon is able to beat hubert Humphrey with his

claims of restoring law and order in this country,

then let's see happen.

God, I hope not.

So, I was trying to convey anger and frustration through this response.

Uh,

Mike was mentioning the riots and protesters at the Democratic

National Convention and he thinks if the protesters were not,

they're setting things on fire beating other people up,

then

Humphrey would have won the presidential election because people thought, oh well

there's

writers at the Democratic National Convention,

but not the republican ones, so

he is not able to run this country.

And that's like a preview of what he would

like what the country looks like.

And I just wanted to convey that

frustration and how,

and just

was

a timing problem.

Who should the democrats nominate for president

in order to beat the republican nominee?

How will they be more appealing to american voters? The Nixon

Hubert Humphrey 100%.

If the riots at the Democratic National

Convention subside enough to have the ordeal,

not influenced the decision of the presidential election

would be a fair fight.

I predict the Vietnam war is also going to continue for a few more years.

But Humphrey were to get elected. I think it would end a tad sooner.

His well called by candidate

and a decent man. But that's not what the headlines read.

It's about the riots that has been smashed into concrete walls.

The screeching and screaming of idiot protesters.

I have to say

I'm free as the best candidate.

Timing is just the only issue.

I'm not sure if we could pull this one off, but it's worth a shot.

So again, I'm mentioning the riots about the Democratic National Convention.

He honestly just

wanted to predict that the Vietnam war was going to

continue for a few more years and I actually did.

So I kind of wanted to throw that in there as well.

And yeah, he just thinks I'm free was

a lot more qualified

and if it wasn't for the protesters, he definitely would have won

the election.

What is your view on the outlook of the civil

rights movement after the assassination of dr martin Luther king Jr

how should the movement

we all mess up

mistakes are part of life.

We have to look on the bright side of things and if that

means taken has been being out of you and use it as motivation

literally.

So be it

Who said that was okay for us to do. However,

what was it instated in society to have a speed. The living guests out of each other

to inspire us to have a good life.

Oh

our lives have mistakes, but some make more than others.

Nothing has changed since the assassination of MLK.

In fact, people a bit became more ravenous with their intentions.

So brutal,

infatuated with themselves that they feel like

they have to push their perfect perceptions

onto others through brute force.

Where did their God go?

Yeah,

So Mike was talking about how we still use violence to try

to get our point across and that's not what MLK stood for.

He wanted peaceful protests.

Um

and

mike just really

try to convey that through this whole response and the

I'm mentioning what was found in the ticket to good life, punched with pain

and I quoted that at the bottom

or linked it at the bottom of this

this slide.

But yeah, he just thinks that we're all still going to be violent and that wouldn't

won't change

soon.

Can protesters, artists and musicians really change anything?

Most definitely,

What kind of question is that?

Look at what Mayor Daley revealed to us in Chicago in 1967,

a beautiful piece of artwork,

one of the most successful artists in history,

Picasso

cultural rebirth is real current and it can

be most it can most definitely happen anywhere.

It's more common. However, in areas where parts actually appreciated

whom I draw those boundary lines

other than that.

Musicians and protesters can also have a drastic impact on the general public,

These actions need to be celebrated encouraged.

We need another culture

culture shock

shoot put us in the electric chair if that's what it takes.

So I was actually mentioning how

the artwork in Chicago

that they presented

um was kind of like

surprising and like not really taken

the way it was intended

and mike wanted to

mentioned that in this response.

He does think that musicians

and artists can

change perceptions and just really

have an impact on people. But

the right people need to

be presented that information

to the United States focus on infrastructure

or does it have other domestic priorities?

Infrastructure should be the least of our worries at the moment

I see women wandering the streets aimlessly with the water ones in one hand

and a bottle and the other

wondering what got to them.

Is there a way to alleviate these pressures in

society that's pushing on them to change themselves?

Like I've said before,

the fashion industry might as well advertise

pipes and slippers to be trendy because women

will drop the bottles and find themselves clutching a pipe before you know it.

No, I think a movement needs to influence these brainwashed individuals.

This would be a large one for sure.

But buildings can wait to be renovated and if this

problem hasn't been putting on the drafting board yet.

So I got this inspiration from one of his columns that he's written about how

he thinks it's kind of funny that if you advertise anything to be trendy women will

take it up and

where is it?

And that's why he said pipes and slippers

because if they advertise those between the women would follow that.

So he honestly thinks we need to break away

from societal norms and become our own person.

He just hates the trends and

everything that happens with

society

in regards to what women should do and what they should not do.

What do you think about the call for law and order in

the light of the violence and writing occurring across american cities?

Is this a good policy agenda?

Do you remember the assassination of robert Kennedy?

Oh, how that made me furious.

I don't even remember the last time we had a political assassination,

let alone one that was so easy to commit.

There are some days where I cannot walk on

the street without thinking that the person behind me

plotting to kill someone

that someone could be me.

I know I'm not the only one of these

with these superstitions,

we need gun laws.

I don't know how restrictive, restrictive,

but enough to get those out of the hands of bad people

and to ease the worries of the decent people.

So in the meantime,

let's keep a tally. How many massacres happen in the US daily

about other countries already do.

So I tried to give this some more sarcastic tone. He just,

he does not like the gun laws that are in

place at the moment he thinks they need to change.

But he doesn't know how restrictive they should be but

enough to get the worries

of good people

about how guns could,

you know, potentially kill them

and

yeah, I just tried to convey that through this response.

What should american policy in Vietnam B

escalation

maintain

the escalation withdrawal,

Total war.

I am fed up with the government's idiocracy.

Once the war in Vietnam started all ounces of

common sense just leaked out of their brains.

Take the Veterans Administration for example,

they refused to pay for a surgery that was caused by a

little rocket because they claimed it was not a service connected injury.

Do I have to explain myself on this one

Once the government straightens her pants,

cleans the gearbox out of their ears and

takes a second look at their mutilated agenda,

we wouldn't be able to win this war.

However, since that won't ever happen,

the escalation would be the most realistic option.

I just don't think they have the capacity

to lead this country into greener pastures.

If they don't know what the color green even looks like.

I mean

that he even claimed to support the troops until I write a column about it.

So mike was actually mentioning a specific

instance

through this response.

He

talked about how the Veterans administration would not

pay for a surgery that was caused by rocket blowing up in a soldier's face, like

in the Vietnam War.

And

they just said it wasn't a service connected injury, which it obviously was.

And Mike was talking about how it like blew off half

of his face and little kids are scared of him.

And he talks about that in one of his columns that I quoted,

mm hmm,

linked at the bottom.

So,

well, that was my whole project,

I hope you enjoyed and thank you so much for listening.

Mike Royko

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