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...Limb. In the fast-changing political climate, Adlai Stevenson was the Democrat who seemed farthest out on a limb. The first to attack the Administration for its international blunders (he spoke out even before Ike had returned from the exploded summit), Stevenson had followed through with the harshest, most persistent criticism. "The effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall...
...nomination, reserved decision on a Republican choice "until a later day when, and if, a contest develops." The ultraconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader also gave Johnson a curt nod as its favorite Democrat. And Long Island's Newsday, one of the first U.S. dailies to come out for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, was early again in 1960-plumping for a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket...
With the Democratic Convention just six weeks off, the Washington political oracles were saying that the free-for-all race had turned into a two-man sprint. On the tip sheets of most political touts, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson were leaving Adlai Stevenson and Stuart Symington behind...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, the Republican minority leader rose in partisan wrath. "Well-placed, well-timed torpedo!" cried Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, hotly declaring that Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson had helped Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wreck the summit conference by presenting Khrushchev with the thought that he could ignore Ike and deal better with the next U.S. President...
...which was that he publish no interviews while still in the U.S. A few days after his Stevenson visit, he told a Mansfield, Mass, editor: "I do not know what to do. This is important information but I was told not to publish it." Said he last week: "Mr. Adlai Stevenson is walking slowly in the path of truth. In his first denial he seemed unaware of my visit to him and of the conversations we had. Now he recognizes having met me. I do not contest the right of Mr. Stevenson, like any politician, to change his mind. Today...