Word: adlai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights. Where was the Senator about a month ago, when the civil rights (housing) bill came up for a vote? At that time, both parties needed votes and the Senators were rushing back to the Senate-except Senator McCarthy. He stayed in New Hampshire trying to get votes. Adlai Stevenson would not have stayed away...
...Senator McCarthy offers some parallels with Barry Goldwater: he presents the politics of honesty and morality. But unlike the Senator from Arizona, McCarthy's intelligence gives vision to his honesty and takes the rasping edge of self-righteousness off his morality. He is a true successor to Adlai Stevenson...
...Kennedy and twice as smart as [Senator Stuart] Symington." But at the convention, McCarthy, no fan either of the Kennedys, whom he accused of "lavishness and ruthlessness" in the primaries, or of Lyndon Johnson, rose to nominate a man who had no chance at all to win the nomination: Adlai E. Stevenson. "Do not reject this man who made us all proud to be called Democrats!" cried McCarthy. "Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party." It was an electrifying speech-and an entirely quixotic gesture...
McCarthy must also realize that candidates who do manage to survive Wisconsin often die at the national conventions. This "Wisconsin whammy" has twice befallen Estes Kefauver, the choice of state Democrats in 1952 and '56, who lost the nomination both years to Adlai Stevenson...
Shriver had often irritated local Democrats by floating the rumor that he was available for the Illinois posts; many machine loyalists regarded him as a carpetbagger whose only tie to Illinois was the room he maintained in Chicago's Drake Hotel. Adlai III also rankled the Daley regulars, especially when he appeared before their council of slatemakers and touted himself as the "strongest" candidate for Governor. He angered the committee further when he said that he might not be able to support the President's war policies in every detail. "I was disgusted," said one member...