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Even though surveys showed him within striking distance of Illinois Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III, G.O.P. Congressman John B. Anderson decided not to make the race because Watergate had dried up party contributions in the state...
...ADLAI STEVENSON. "He would never understand how you have to get along with people and be equal with them . . . That fellow was too busy making up his mind whether he had to go to the bathroom or not. That fellow didn't know the first thing about campaigning [in 1952], and he didn't learn anything either. He got worse...
When he learned that the Nixon Administration had named a new special Watergate prosecutor to replace Archibald Cox, Illinois Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson III told the Senate Judiciary Committee: "I keep thinking of the immortal words of Zsa Zsa Gabor after one of her numerous marriages: 'This time, darling, it's for real...
President Nixon's promises did not satisfy Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-III.), and Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), sponsors of separate bills providing for a court appointed special prosecutor...
...same time Nixon, who once proclaimed so emphatically that it was time "to turn Watergate over to the courts," had short-circuited any such course. As Democratic Senator Adlai E. Stevenson aptly summed up the sorry situation last week: "By denying the special prosecutor access to the White House tapes, Mr. Nixon gives the American people no reason for confidence that they will ever know the whole truth about Watergate. By his disdain for the orderly processes of the law, he gives us no reason to believe that justice will be done." The Nixon argument that the real issues were...