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...more striking when compared to the failure of Charles Percy in Illinois. Percy received the sort of mass media treatment that only goes to those whom Henry Luce would like to see in the White House. He campaigned for two years and was probably better known than Otto Kerner, who had occupied the Governor's office for four years...
...didn't more people switch from the Democratic column to vote for Percy? Kerner had not been an outstandingly successful Governor; he had had his troubles with the malapportioned Republican legislature; he had ties to that old ogre, Mayor Daley of Chicago. Nevertheless, far fewer voters in Illinois than in Michigan or Rhode Island split their tickets. The voters wanted to keep Kerner: he had, after all, done an adequate job; times were good, and with all the upheavals lately, why change...
Parading 27 witnesses to the stand, the defense sought to show that Stratton received repeated donations that could not be classified as political contributions, because they had no strings attached. Julius Klein, a Chicago public relations man, testified that just before Stratton lost to present Governor Otto Kerner, Klein told Stratton: "Bill, you're not going to win. You'll need this money after the election. Here's $1,000." Andrew Fasseas, a Chicago financier who was once Stratton's state-revenue director, said that every Christmas he handed Stratton's wife Shirley an envelope...
...Kerner has sometimes seemed indecisive as a Governor, it is also true that he has deftly avoided getting any large segment of the population angry at him. He has pushed a progressive program of regional mental-health clinics, helped increase Illinois exports abroad, reduced public relief costs, firmly supported state laws to help Negroes get fairer treatment in seeking housing and jobs, knocked much administrative waste out of the State Toll Road Commission. He has notably failed to take forthright action in reforming Illinois' archaic tax system, which may yet drive the state to the edge of bankruptcy...
...other year, with Johnson not on the ticket, Kerner would almost certainly have lost to Percy, a real go-out-and-get-'em guy. But in 1964, Otto Kerner did pretty well just by sounding as much as possible like Lyndon Johnson. And Johnson would have been proud of Kerner's post-election statement: "We must continue the atmosphere which has brought new unity to our people, a unity that knows no Cook County way to build a greater Illinois, no downstate way, but a united...