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...those voters who want both continuity and change, Adlai Stevenson is a new face on the old party and the old policies. His pitch is: "Don't let them take it away, but if you want a change...
...Adlai* Stevenson made a good first impression, but with Chicago's initial enthusiasm past, he had to face some hard realities. He was virtually unprepared for the exacting business of running for the presidency. He had no personal campaign staff. He did not even have a headquarters with enough paper clips and typists. The telephone lines at the governor's mansion in Springfield were inadequate. Above all, Stevenson knew that if he permitted the impression that he was being run by the Democratic National Committee, by Harry Truman and the party bosses, he would lose votes. Last week...
...called the custodian of Lincoln's house, where Lincoln had lived between 1844 and 1861, and from where he had gone to the White House. Stevenson said he just wanted to drop by for a visit. The door was unlocked for the governor. From 11 p.m. to midnight Adlai Stevenson stayed alone in the living room. No one is sure what he did there, but some say that for a time he sat in Abraham Lincoln's rocking chair, meditating...
...last afternoon of the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Adlai Stevenson stepped to the microphone to sing the praises of a bulky, apple-cheeked man who stood slightly to the rear, grinning happily though his eyes were red from lack of sleep and his curly, greying hair was rumpled. Stevenson had scarcely gotten under way when careful, homespun John Jackson Sparkman, who had just been nominated for Vice President of the United States, stopped grinning, fished a cough drop out of his mouth and slipped it through a crack in the platform floor...
...York Herald Tribune, the first big paper to come out strongly for Eisenhower, added its voice: "In nominating Adlai E. Stevenson the Democrats picked a strong candidate [who] has shown himself up to now moderate in his views and fair in his approach ... A campaign between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson should be one reflecting more credit on popular government than any this country has seen for several years . . . The Democrats have risen to the challenge of the Eisenhower candidacy and picked their best man for the race. [We] look with complete confidence to the people's verdict...