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...Badminton Game. The hardest blow came from Illinois' Republican Governor William Stratton. He had spent the day in the downstate mining city of Centralia. When he got back to the executive mansion in Springfield after midnight, he heard about Wilson's dogs. Governor Stratton was due to introduce Wilson at the Chicago dinner in 18 hours' time; a much-perturbed politician, he decided against...
...Stratton aide told reporters that the governor would stay away from the dinner if Charlie Wilson showed up. Wilson, home in Michigan, insisted on going. "The girl's been propositioned," he said. "The marriage ceremony has been arranged. To call it off now would raise quite a stink." Big Ed Moore, Cook County G.O.P. chairman, quivered: "It would be an impossible situation . . . embarrassing...
...help for Meek. The senatorial candidate was not at the airport to meet the President. At lunch in the governor's mansion, Meek was not seated at Ike's table. When the presidential motorcade left for the fairgrounds, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Indiana's Governor George Craig rode with Ike. Meek rode with his family, six cars behind. On the rostrum, when Meek was introduced, he bounded out of his chair, waved to the crowd and turned to shake hands with Ike. Startled, the President remained seated...
...Stratton introduced Ike, and the applause was tumultuous. Speaking from notes printed in large block letters on pieces of cardboard, the President worked into a recital of the progress made since he took office with a Republican Congress. The Korean war had been ended. Said Ike: "Obviously, all of us know that the composition that was reached in Korea is not satisfactory to America, but it is far better than to continue the bloody, dreary sacrifice of lives with no possible strictly military victory in sight." At home, the President said, controls had been lifted, inflation avoided, a sensible farm...
...long motor caravan, finally wound up the ceremonial schedule amid the bunting of Hoover Park, hard by the three-room frame house where he was born Aug. 10, 1874. At speechmaking time, he was eulogized by Iowa's Governor William Beardsley and Illinois' Governor William Stratton, awarded his 80th honorary degree (Doctor of Laws from the State University of Iowa), and praised in a letter from President Eisenhower ("I look anew, and with ever-increasing admiration, upon your distinguished career"). Then Herbert Hoover stood up to tell West Branch and the U.S. what a statesman...