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Throughout the next decade, Schlesinger wrote about the rising threat of Stalinism, chronicled “The Age of Roosevelt”, and provided advice to Democratic causes and presidential candidates like Adlai E. Stevenson...
...obvious liability, his lack of experience. If the Democrats nominated Obama, who served as a Illinois state legislator for seven years before joining the Senate in 2004, he would have the shortest tenure in statewide office of any nominee from either party since 1952, when first-term Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson took on Dwight Eisenhower, who had not held elective office. One of Obama's likely opponents, Delaware's Joe Biden, served in the Senate for a decade before his Illinois counterpart even graduated from college; Obama's legislative record from his two years in Washington is so slim that...
Agustina, like Alexander, sat me down at a special desk and insisted I take a bottle of branded water. Then she showed me hundreds of swatches that ran the gamut of self-consciously bizarre names, from Bitched From the Start (a Patti Smith lyric) to Adlai Stevenson. (J. Edgar Hoover is not the gayest pattern in the store; that would be Curaao.) After considerable deliberation, I went with a pink-and-blue stripe called Equal Rights in a single-button cuff and a dark black-and-blue pattern called Levev in Napoleonic style...
...Rough Riders, Roosevelt is elected Governor of New York. During his two years in office, he signs nearly 1,000 bills into law, including one desegregating state schools. After being nominated as McKinley's vice-presidential running mate in 1900, he and McKinley defeat William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson by fewer than 900,000 votes. On Sept. 6, 1901, six months after taking office, President McKinley is shot while touring the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley dies eight days later, and Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President. Just 42, he is the youngest man ever...
...Rosenthal ’56 waited outside in the cold with a photographer, hoping for a glimpse of the Democratic presidential candidate who was rumored to be visiting his son, a student at Harvard Law School.“Sure enough, the door opened and out came [presidential candidate] Adlai Stevenson,” Rosenthal says, still sounding faintly surprised. “He looked at me funny and said ‘Why are you standing out in the cold so long? Why don’t you come in and get some hot chocolate...