Word: adlai
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...Korea, even among men who considered themselves liberals and who later opposed the U.S. role in Vietnam. Robert S. Harding '52, now a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist, voted for former president Dwight D. Eisenhower while Freedman was snaking through Cambridge on a sound truck campaigning for former Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.). Harding, who says he has subsequently "done a complete turnaround," perceived the mood then as "one of threat from the outside. Czechoslovakia had been overthrown a few years earlier and we were all genuinely afraid of being surrounded by communists. Sending troops to Korea made sense...
...talk about a balanced budget, delayed social spending, work-ethic welfare and pay-as-you-go Social Security. Snorted a former New Dealer: "Carter is the most conservative President since Calvin Coolidge." Fair Dealer Clayton Fritchey, who worked in Harry Truman's Administration and was once Adlai Stevenson's press secretary, wrote that he had warned his liberal compatriots that Carter was the first true businessman to become President, and it would not have surprised him to have heard Carter criticize Gerald Ford as a man who never met a payroll...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt raced through the streets in an open touring car on his way to someplace else, and in 1952 Harry Truman actually stopped off to campaign for Adlai Stevenson. But nothing like this had ever happened before to Clinton, Mass., and the residents of the old factory town 36 miles west of Boston were doing their best to get ready for the momentous day. They swept the streets, hosed down the red brick storefronts, and slapped a coat of paint on the interior of the town hall, where the great event would take place...
...Majority Leader's ideology was relatively unimportant. As one of Byrd's colleagues put it, "Byrd will just be a hollow log for (Carter and the Congress) to leave messages in." What was needed, they argued, was a capable manager who could secure the enactment of administration initiatives. As Adlai E. Stevenson III of Illinois said: "It seems to me that what the Senate needs more than anything else is management and a philosophically neutral climate...
Daley's organization was the joy of aspiring politicians. They knew the machine would get out the vote. Daley helped win the governorship for Adlai Stevenson. In 1960 he tipped the state and thereby the election to John Kennedy. His support of Jimmy Carter just about clinched the nomination for the Georgian. But he was unable to win the state for Carter, or even to put a Democrat in the statehouse in Springfield...