Word: adlai
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...Adlai's Man Estes...
...With Adlai...
Wrote doorbell-ringing Pollster Samuel Lubell for his newspaper clients this week: "In eight Minnesota and Iowa counties, a third of the farmers I talked with, who favored Eisenhower in 1952, were changing, while others were still undecided. This represents a heavy enough swing for Adlai Stevenson to win both states [21 electoral votes] . . . The net picture is of a far more closely fought election than in 1952-with Eisenhower still holding the edge. It is an edge, though, which could be wiped out . . . It can perhaps be summed up as a struggle of the cities versus the farms...
Then, before leaving the field to Rival Adlai Stevenson (see below), Ike defined for his audience his idea of what the G.O.P. should be. It should be "committed to no group," yield to "no particular pressure," have as its sole motive the welfare of 168 million Americans. If a measure is good for all Americans, advised Ike, "get behind it and shove." If it is not, "don't let them sell it to you, no matter how attractive it looks for votes or anything else...
...struggle has only begun. The Communists have changed their methods but not their goals, and hundreds of millions of men still seek freedom. Overriding everything else, nuclear weapons have given humanity "the power to end its history," made "world disarmament a necessity of world life." Then, without mentioning Adlai Stevenson by name, he took issue with Stevenson's recent essays into military strategy. The U.S. cannot "prove wise and strong with public speech that erroneously asserts our economic weakness [or] by any such simple device as suspending, unilaterally, our H-bomb tests [or] by hinting that the military draft...