Word: adlai
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...irascible Harry S Truman was hammered by Estes Kefauver in New Hampshire and faced an even stronger challenge from Adlai E. Stevenson, forcing Truman to call it quits. LBJ met the same fate in 1968 when "Clean" Gene McCarthy captured 42 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, giving Robert F. Kennedy '48 a reason to drop his hat into the ring...
Nixon's judicious employment of his tear ducts enthralled the nation and helped propel his ticket to victory over Adlai E. Stevenson, who even in defeat clung to the discredited Victorian ethic by quoting Abraham Lincoln's anecdote about a little boy who stubbed his toe and said that it hurt too much to laugh but he was too big to cry. Poor Stevenson, a prisoner of the past, deserved to be a loser. For the more up-to-date Nixon, the prize was the vice presidency and, 16 years later, the White House itself...
They hobnobbed with Roosevelts and Kennedys, counseled Adlai Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson, entertained the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. At their hereditary mansion they favored English butlers and European decor; even the family charades grew so elaborate that they were pictured in LIFE magazine. But for all this golden splendor, the Binghams of Louisville were not precisely household names, unless your household was in Kentucky, where they owned the dominant newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. The papers built, then eroded, a name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus...
Brownstein walks us through some of the early history: moguls sycophantically pursuing Presidents; Bogie and Bacall barnstorming for Adlai Stevenson; the Hollywood Ten and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; the unholy Jack Pack of Frank Sinatra and J.F.K. (Gary Hart and Warren Beatty being the more cerebral, 1980s version). Much of the book's second half deals with the travails of a coterie of wealthy Hollywood liberals -- from Norman Lear to Rob Lowe -- who are desperate to be taken seriously...
...also quoted Adlai Stevenson and said they separated the wheat from the chaff and left in the chaff...