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Kennedy himself flew back to Manhattan to accept the Liberal Party nomination, to join forces with Adlai Stevenson, and to promise leadership toward "the new and better world beyond the New Frontier." On across the city and into New Jersey he carried his own basic, oft-repeated theme: the decline of the U.S. at home and abroad. In heavily Democratic centers he added a clarion call for party loyalty...
...Adlai & Mother. All through the hot day the train clacked through the almond groves and peach orchards of the Central Valley, and Kennedy pulled the stops, one by one. In Richmond, introducing his sister, Pat Lawford, it was American motherhood ("My wife is home, and we are having a baby-a boy-in November"). A reference to Adlai Stevenson drew loud cheers in Richmond, deep in Stevenson heartland. There were the in evitable home-grown beauties bearing gifts: olives and peaches in Red Bluff, a jug of water in Dunsmuir, a camellia plant in Sacramento (earlier in the week there...
Question of Peace. In speeches the following night, Lawyer Adlai Stevenson said: "It is immensely significant that the organized bar of the country has given this manifest of America's belief in the ideal of a common confidence among nations." Secretary of State Christian Herter added his "unqualified endorsement": "As a world leader, we are setting an exceedingly poor example by such oarochial action as the Connally Amendment...
During the past months. Adlai Stevenson has caught Mort Sahl's act more than a dozen times in Chicago, and the two have become fast-tongued friends. Last week, Sahl recalled a recent visit to the gentleman farmer's diggings at Libertyville. "He doesn't stand on ceremony or have any protocol, and yet the dignity is indigenous. Only trouble is he's so charming he usually steals your girl...
...campaigning out among the voters, Jack Kennedy made time for peacemaking pilgrimages to two famous Democrats who had rapped him sharply in recent memory. Early in the week he flew up to Hyde Park, N.Y. to spend a couple of hours placating Eleanor Roosevelt, who had fervently backed Adlai Stevenson for the presidential nomination, but now decided that the man she once called immature would do. At week's end Jack headed out to Independence, Mo. to mollify Harry Truman...