Word: adlai
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...backing, took immediate heart at another Truman press conference remark: "I am not a bandwagon fellow. Don't get that in your head." Later, Stevenson's supporters found cause for optimism when Truman appeared before the Democratic Platform Committee and recommended a civil-rights plank along Adlai's moderation lines...
...enjoying himself"). Stevenson visited for 30 minutes, left Truman's inner room looking glum, but turned on a brave smile when he emerged into the corridor. Harriman's headquarters soon got the good word: in his talk with Stevenson, Truman had flatly rejected 1) an endorsement of Adlai, and 2) a neutral stance between Stevenson and Harriman. Harriman aides set about preparing a statement, sent it to Truman by way of Sam Rosenman and retired Adman David Noyes, with the suggestion that Truman use it as the basis for his Harriman endorsement. Twenty-four hours later they learned...
...will do my duty." Johnson, the victim of a heart attack last summer, made it clear he thought his health was no handicap. Said he: "I have been putting in 15-and 16-hour days every day, including Saturday, during the last weeks of Congress." Did he consider Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman the best candidate? Replied Johnson: "The best candidate at the moment is Lyndon Johnson...
...Royal Skyway suite of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Adlai Stevenson and his lieutenants sat looking at the face of Harry Truman on their screen. When Truman said the Democrats should name the candidate with greatest experience in foreign affairs, Adlai grunted, reached for his pencil and pad, began taking notes. Fifty-five minutes later, Stevenson fought his way through a crush of humanity to his downstairs headquarters, paid strained but polite respects to Harry Truman, and said: "I expect to be the Democratic nominee...
...twist, many Democrats were torn, e.g., Truman Biographer Jonathan Daniels of North Carolina, asked by Harry to support Harriman, replied mournfully: "I feel like a bastard at the family reunion. After you announced that you wouldn't run in 1952, you told me to go out and get Adlai Stevenson to run. Stevenson is still running, and I'm still running for Stevenson...