I'll add that his luster was augmented by the murderer's row of bad / mediocre governors who followed him. Jim Florio (1 term dem disaster), Christie Todd Whitman (two term do-nothing RINO), Jim McGreevy (criminal dem allowed to resign as punishment enough for the crimes they had him dead to rights on), Jon Corzine (1 term dem disaster), Chris Christie (two term fat loudmouth do-nothing RINO) and our current dictator democrat Phil Murphy.
Everyone on that list makes Tom Keane look like Churchill in comparison to them.