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...Duluth this week, leaders of Minnesota's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party will request Adlai Stevenson to accept their endorsement for President. Within a few days, Stevenson will answer yes. Although he has previously made it obvious that he will run, e.g., in Kingston, Ont. last fortnight, when he told newsmen he would accept the Democratic nomination if it were offered, Stevenson will consider his reply to Minnesota his formal announcement of candidacy. Thus, the 1952 Democratic nominee will become the first official entry in the 1956 presidential field...
After the meeting broke up, State Chairman Elizabeth Snyder and others-in a parked car-drafted a telegram urging Adlai to run. Party leaders and Democratic clubs in every one of California's 58 counties were asked, by phone and wire, to add their signatures. An impressive array of leaders signed. Before breakfast, on Carmine De Sapio's second day in San Francisco, agitated National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser, who still likes Kefauver, bustled into De Sapio's suite at the Fairmount Hotel to break the bad news: Pat Brown and other top party leaders were holding...
...dinner in Chicago last week, the national chairmen of the Republican and Democratic Parties shared the same debating platform. Both men put in plugs for their personal preferences: New York Republican Leonard Hall pointedly praised "our great Vice President," Richard Nixon; Indiana Democrat Paul Butler quoted with approval from Adlai Stevenson's speeches...
...Boston before the rally, Truman declared that he would only announce his choice at the convention itself next year. He called himself "Adlai's friend," but added that at 64, Harriman was not too old for the presidency. Next day in Albany, Truman joined Harriman at a reception for 150 party leaders and their wives. In the vast, flag-draped Albany armory, the mass of party hopefuls were given box lunches, armloads of campaign materials, and later speeches by De Sapio, Harriman and Truman. No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits...
...back and Stevenson something sharper, Harry Truman left Albany. Ave Harriman, who had publicly pledged his support to Stevenson last summer, turned the knife: in a TV interview at week's end, while disclaiming any intent to run himself, he said that he felt no obligation to support Adlai Stevenson...