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...your Aug. 3 account of my forced resignation from the presidency of the University of Illinois . . . there is one item that constitutes a misstatement: "Last winter he [Stoddard] got into a fight with Illinois Governor William G. Stratton, who refused as unreasonable Stoddard's request for more than a half million dollars to set up a university TV station." Actually, the Governor never received any such request from the university . . . The maximum amount approved by the board of trustees was $175,000 per year. Since the Governor would not approve the total university askings, which included this item...
...Last winter he got into a fight with Illinois' Governor William Stratton, who refused as unreasonable Stoddard's request for more than half a million dollars to set up a university TV station...
...debit side of the Stratton ledger showed some substantial items. He wiped out a Stevenson increase of $8,000,000 a year in truck license fees, an act that his opponents and even some of his friends said was an unmerited reward to trucking interests for supporting him last year. Some Illinois political observers thought that Stratton had also traded away too many of his aims, e.g., reform of the antiquated judicial system, to get his reapportionment bill through. But Stratton insisted that he would fight for judicial reform in the next session of the legislature. Welfare and education leaders...
...appointments, Stratton (who handles all patronage personally) came up with a 200-volt shock for those who considered him reactionary: he appointed a Negro, Chicago's able Lawyer-Editor Joseph Bibb, as director of public safety, one of the state's most sensitive and important positions. Bibb is the first Negro to occupy a cabinet post in any state since Reconstruction days in the South (TIME, Dec. 29). Said Stratton: "If Bibb makes a success of his job, as I'm convinced he will, it's bound to contribute to better understanding between the races...
...legislators headed home last week, no one was ready to say flatly that William Stratton would outdo Adlai Stevenson's good record as governor. But after six months of Stratton, Billy the Kid had a different meaning in Illinois. It meant a hard-riding, fast-drawing governor who knows how to get what he wants...