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...that cuts might have been looked for to balance increases in defense spending. In his Oklahoma City speech in mid-November, the President said that "savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities." That warning drew from Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and the liberal camp, pained protests against dismantling the welfare state. But Ike's 1959 budget should soothe such fears: the welfare state comes through remarkably beefy...
...Since Adlai Stevenson's bid for the Presidency in 1952, California (Big "D") Democracy has undergone a complex devolution back to the little man. The West's multiplying middle class and mushroom unionism suddenly discovered a stake in the political nation. People too busy, too old, or too worried to pay more than breakfast table attention to affairs of state began to meet on Friday nights in a neighbor's home; they gathered into organizations throughout the Golden State, invited speakers and began to read the Congressional Record...
...winter of 1957 the hour of idealism has expended itself. The little clubs and luncheon groups had seen Adlai Stevenson flop twice. Nights by the radio listening to returns embittered the early hopefulness...
...original egghead: Adlai Stevenson...
...last summer's talks in London is an odds-on bet not to do it again. Reason: State Department Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen, who kept the State Department quivering nervously during the 1957 negotiations, continues to disagree on basics with Secretary of State Dulles. Like Adlai Stevenson, Stassen believes the U.S. must make a conference-opening concession, i.e., cessation of nuclear testing for a short period as a demonstration of faith. Dulles is unalterably opposed to that idea and also to Stassen's notion that results can be got if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. hold private talks...