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Senator John F. Kennedy will suffer a defeat in the coming election because of his very close association with people like Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Reuther, etc., and not because he is a Catholic or because of his past record in Congress...
Solid for Kennedy: Barring a huge anti-Catholic vote, Kennedy will win the deepest sections of the Deep South that held loyally to Al Smith in 1928 and Adlai Stevenson in 1956 (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi). Electoral votes: KENNEDY...
...return to the Senate in May 1955. He took his place as a leader among the Northern Democrats; his mind, as sharply honed as a barber's razor, turned to every major project on the agenda, and his eyes fastened on the White House. When Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw open the 1956 Democratic Convention for vice-presidential nominations, Kennedy plunged into a trial run. To his surprise, he came within a thin 38^ votes of defeating Tennessee's Estes Kefauver-corralling, along the way, a strong voting strength from the South, the Eastern Seaboard and his native...
...will try to get more intellectually vigorous people in Washington," he says. "It's been rather a pale atmosphere." Says a top aide, ignoring the speculation about Adlai Stevenson and Chester Bowles: "Kennedy will be his own Secretary of State. His Secretary of State will be an adviser and an administrator of John Kennedy's foreign policy." Republicans would be invited to participate in the area of national security ("It is not just a Democratic concern"), but, on balance. Kennedy's Washington would be partisan, egghead and dominated by one man: President Kennedy...
Except for the most predictably partisan of U.S. newspapers, publishers in 1960 seemed to be having a harder time than usual in declaring their choices in 1960. Nixon inevitably won the most editorial support, though Kennedy was doing better than Adlai Stevenson in 1956. One remarkable phenomenon, on either side, was the qualified enthusiasm. Papers that chose Nixon often did so out of dedi cation to conservative domestic policies more than to any heartwarming tributes to Nixon himself. Kennedy enthusiasts were just as apt to temper their praise with good words for Nixon's policies and his experience...