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...great publicity, he brought a number of them into his Administration. But Kennedy conferred great power upon only one Harvard figure--McGeorge Bundy, a Republican who had been only a quiet Kennedy supporter in the campaign. And Kennedy never won from the intellectuals the deep committment they gave to Adlai Stevenson...
...votes in both citywide and Statewide elections. In nearly all State and most city and local elections, the Liberals endorse the Democratic candidates; but the party often runs its own candidates and occasionally supports a Republican. The Liberal vote carried New York State for Presidents Truman and Kennedy, and Adlai Stevenson's State campaign was handled largely by the Liberals in 1956, when Caramine de Sapio's Democratic machine sat on its hands...
...soft with disuse and fat with self flattery, a Great Man has a special role. More than the leader who would direct us, or the philosopher who would admonish us, he must be a man in whose image we would mold ourselves. To liberal Democrats during the 1950's, Adlai Stevenson served as the Philosopher-Would-be-King--a symbol and promise of the once and future Republic...
...Adlai Stevenson has meant more to America as a symbol than as a creative thinker or as a policy maker. He once explained the meaning of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln was not an original thinker, yet it is to him "that people look today as democracy's foremost spokesman and exemplar. The supreme test of a democratic leader is in his democratic faith--and for this Lincoln stands pre-eminent." Although no Lincoln, Stevenson is important as a symbol and as a man. His U.N. speeches show the man in a different role, one which clouds the meanings of the symbol...
...TIME'S excellent portrait of Lord Home clearly indicated that, far from having scraped the bottom of the barrel, Britain's Tories have reached into the top of the top drawer for a leader who seems to be a sparkling blend of Benjamin Disraeli and Adlai Stevenson...