Word: adlai
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...suspected that "Senator Kennedy is not mature on the China problem." Many Turks seemed to agree with an Ankara businessman who said: "Nixon was willing to stand up to the Russians, but we don't know anything about Kennedy." In Britain and the Scandinavian countries, where nostalgia for Adlai Stevenson remains high, much sentiment favored the Democrats. They did not know Kennedy, but had lingering doubts about Nixon...
...Arriving in Hyannisport the next day for his own conference with Kennedy, Stevenson was asked why he had not been included in the meeting with Johnson. Said Adlai: "Johnson? I didn't know he was here...
...They'd Crow!" Like Adlai Stevenson, his opposite number in Los Angeles, Goldwater found that he could draw a fervent crowd wherever he went. But unlike Adlai, Goldwater coldly counted delegates before listening to the hot promises of his friends. If he could find as many as 300, he told one group, he would push ahead for the nomination, if only to make conservatism's pull felt. "If I went in and got less than 100 votes," he said, "how they'd crow! I know what the Lipp-manns and the Alsops and the Childses would...
...meeting. Since the upcoming session of Congress was Topic A, Jack was content to listen to the advice and schemes of his leader in the Senate, Lyndon Johnson. Wives Jackie and Lady Bird sat together on a nearby couch, put through long-distance calls for the conferees to Adlai Stevenson* and Governor Steve McNichols of Colorado...
...traditional clear-the-rascals-out clause is particularly ill-considered; it reads "We shall reform the processes of government in all branches . . . we will clean out corruption and conflicts of interest and improve Government service." This is the sort of thing for which Harry Truman very properly reprimanded Adlai Stevenson in 1952; surely there is no longer any need either to invoke or to exorcise the Jenner-McCarthy spirit...